CATEGORY IS... NOBLE LIE

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

STERLINGas found in Logic By Machine (Part I)

BUBBAas found in For Health and Happiness · 1941

MADAMEas found in Story of a City: New York · 1946

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