THE REPUBLIC · EPISODE THREE · THE LAST BRANCH OFFICE · ALL EPISODES

OPEN ENROLLMENT (FOR THE UNDEAD)

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

JIMJIMas found in Act Your Age · 1949
DWIGHTDWIGHTas found in Pavement Management Systems
JEDJEDas found in Court to Court (October 2004) · 2004

THE SCORE · D-A-E · HONED FOR FILM, CHOSEN BY WHAT EACH MOVEMENT SAYS AND SHOULD FEEL

Plastic Beach Flotsam · triumph, marching drums
Odin Above the Breakers · folk acoustic, ritual and ceremony
Paddle Meets Current · quiet calm, lonely desert
Salvaged Timber · dub reggae, glitchy electronic
Cold Current Paddle · melancholy guitar, dub reggae
Cedar and Cassette · a warm return home, something breaking apart
Solar Wind Boogie · triumph, tension and suspense
Cedar Tank Splash · dreamy ambient, triumph