glory by James Benning

After reading who won the US elections, I thought of this image, a film still from glory by James Benning.

A two hour single-channel video installation that shows the American flag getting torn apart during a sea storm, a great depiction of current political times.

© James Benning

glory
James Benning, 2019
Single-channel video installation, 120 min. silent

Two hours of surveillance footage of a U.S. flag recorded on the late afternoon of 13 September 2018, twelve hours before Hurricane Florence ripped through North Carolina. The footage was recorded at Frying Pan Tower, a decommissioned lighthouse located 39 miles off the North Carolina coast in the Atlantic Ocean on the Frying Pan Shoals.