THE REPUBLIC · EPISODE ONE · RED DUST & REASON · ALL EPISODES
THE ERGON OF BIG HANK
A narrator tells the story. The characters are figures cut from archival films, each first shown where the archive found it, then lifted onto one stage to speak the screenplay's lines. The archive speaks as the Republic's citizens, in their own pictures and voices.
THE CAST, AS FOUND
BIG HANKas found in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge · 2005
W.A.L.T.-Eas found in KEEP THIS UNDER YOUR HOOD, ca. 1940THE SCORE · D-A-E · HONED FOR FILM, CHOSEN BY WHAT EACH MOVEMENT SAYS AND SHOULD FEEL
Conquerors of the Useless · wonder and awe, sorrow
Amazonian Surf Reverb & Bothnian Birch Snap · dreamy ambient, lonely desert
Salvaged Timber · dub reggae, glitchy electronic
Cedar and Cassette · a warm return home, something breaking apart
Wai Lana Layover (Anakena Tuning) · triumph, cinematic strings