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The Republic

2017 · 215 min

A slow, hypnotic listen: disembodied voices build a world in your head while the screen slowly brightens from black to white.

Directed by
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Starring
Nour Mobarak, Anthony Aroya
Overview
An epic story about a group of American libertarians told in a unique manner, as both an audio performance and an experimental film. The piece features an ensemble cast of 15 actors, each individually recorded and then edited together sentence-by-sentence to create a spoken word experience that activates the power of the mind’s eye. As the drama unfolds, the image slowly transitions from pure black to blinding white throughout the duration of the film.

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Directed by
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Starring
Nour Mobarak, Anthony Aroya
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • identity
  • freedom
  • ambition
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour3
Realism3
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Directed by
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Starring
Nour Mobarak, Anthony Aroya
Runtime
215 min
Country
United States of America

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