EACH PART, ITS FUNCTION

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

MATEOas found in The Green Promise · 1949

WALTERas found in Heritage of Splendor · 1963

JESSEas found in Dating: Do's and Don'ts · 1949

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