Today's political, technological, and aesthetic landscapes are rife
with landmines. In this embattled milieu, leftist filmmakers and
conservatives struggle for control of the national imaginary. Amid
unprecedented mergers and consolidations, political conservatives
have launched major attacks against the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Public Broadcasting System, state arts councils, and
other sponsors of oppositional programming. Meanwhile, developing
technologies like satellites and the Internet have not only altered
and globalized communication but also offer untapped possibilities
for reconstructing democracies. All of these events signal a
radical transformation in how we will view the world in the decades
to come.
In States of Emergency, Patricia R. Zimmermann describes the
shifting terrains socially engaged documentary artists and
experimental filmmakers encounter in the aftermath of these
changes. Public space has been chiseled away and politically
conscious documentaries forced to go underground. Viewing an array
of subjects (including the wars in Bosnia, Chiapas, and the Persian
Gulf; Japanese internment during World War II; homelessness; race;
and reproductive rights) through technologies ranging from high-end
video, camcorders, cable access, digital imaging systems, and media
piracy, Zimmermann creates an explosive montage of colliding ideas
and events. In combative terms, she charts the intricately layered
relationships between independent documentary, power, money, and
culture, and also analyzes how media artists use new technologies
and radical media practices to undermine cuts in support and
conservative backlash.
States of Emergency anchors documentary into asocial and
historical context that shows the complex connections among
audiences, filmmakers, funders, and subjects in the fascinating and
fraught milieu in which they coexist. Zimmermann passionately and
convincingly argues that the survival of democracies and public
spaces is inextricably fueled by the robust endurance of
documentary and other insurgent forms of communication.
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