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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.80,0:00:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carrie Mae Weems: You know, it's like–\NI open up this box;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.80,0:00:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s like opening up\Na can of worms.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.48,0:00:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what I mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.26,0:00:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s just like the most amazing–\Nit was the most amazing project.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.28,0:00:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were a group\Nof photographs
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.92,0:00:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I knew that I\Nabsolutely had to use.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.04,0:00:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been thinking about them\Nfor years and years and years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.72,0:00:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had lectured on them in\Nany number of contexts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.56,0:00:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my classrooms\Nfor a really long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.22,0:00:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were a\Ngroup of them that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.28,0:00:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came out of the\NHarvard archives.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.72,0:00:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was one of them,\Na very early daguerreotype
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.84,0:00:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been done in\NNorth Carolina,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.68,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Carolina,\Nof a family of slaves.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was the kind of project\Nthat allowed me to think again
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.12,0:00:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the history of black\Nsubjects in photography as well,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.04,0:00:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how the black body had been\Nused photographically.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.32,0:01:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The final pieces are with texts,\Nand the text is etched into glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.12,0:01:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They look very different once\Nthey're behind glass
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.08,0:01:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the glass and the text\Nbecomes really, really important
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.68,0:01:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to how the audience is being\Nasked to engage with the photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.12,0:01:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there were these\Nbeginning images that seemed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.36,0:01:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me to really crystallize and\Ncompress in four images
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.68,0:01:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the history of African-Americans\Nin the history of photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.48,0:01:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are 30 photographs\Nwithin the series.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.84,0:01:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the photographs for\Nthe Getty series are–
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.20,0:01:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are appropriated images\Nfrom other historical sources.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.16,0:01:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harvard threatened to sue me\Nfor the use of the first photographs
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.56,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I showed you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.84,0:01:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought,\NHarvard is going to sue me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.20,0:01:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for using these images of\Nblack people in their collection,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.64,0:02:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the richest university\Nin the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.73,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that I don't have\Nreally a legal case,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but maybe I have a\Nmoral case that could be made
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.44,0:02:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might be really useful\Nto carry out in public.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.08,0:02:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so after worrying about it\Nand thinking about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.84,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I called them up,\Nand I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I think actually your suing me\Nwould be a really good thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.72,0:02:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You should, and we should have\Nthis conversation in court.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.36,0:02:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it would be\Nreally instructive for
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.92,0:02:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any number of reasons\Nand certainly for artists
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.12,0:02:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are really engaged in the\Nact of appropriation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.92,0:02:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who think that there\Nis a larger story to tell."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.28,0:02:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harvard then finally thought,\N"No, I guess we won't sue her.”
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.48,0:02:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they asked me to,\Nevery time a sell was made,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.44,0:02:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would have to pay them\Nfor the use of the photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.28,0:02:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they bought the\Nphotographs for their collection.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.36,0:03:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was like,\N"Okay, well, you bought 'em.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.20,0:03:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I have to pay you?\NDo I have to pay you too?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.72,0:03:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean– I mean,\NI’m a little confused.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.48,0:03:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from this big,\Nwonderful, crazy family of,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.24,0:03:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know,\N300 or so of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.60,0:03:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started thinking about this\Nrelationship of me to my family
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.68,0:03:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to sort of\Ntease that out.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.84,0:03:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was important for me\Nbecause I really needed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.88,0:03:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to understand something\Nabout the nature of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.92,0:03:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own being and\Nmy own voice and
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.32,0:03:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really where I come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.36,0:03:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was a really great,\Ngreat, great storyteller, and,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.52,0:03:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, narrative and\Nstorytelling was in the blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.24,0:03:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just came from\Na family reunion.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.12,0:03:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My aunt Nellie, who's sort of\Nthe chronicler of our family,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.20,0:03:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put together this really\Nbeautiful scrapbook.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.96,0:03:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love this photograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.20,0:03:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up with this picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.14,0:04:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is sort of like the anchor,\Nthe bedrock of my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.32,0:04:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my beautiful mother\Nand all of her sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.04,0:04:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I’m crazy about them all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.52,0:04:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a photograph\Nof my grandfather.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.60,0:04:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandfather was Jewish\Nand Native American,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.36,0:04:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he married my grandmother\Nwho was this–
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.96,0:04:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, this black woman,\Nand they had 11 children together.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.14,0:04:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Papa was this sort of\Namazing guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.32,0:04:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, because he basically\Npassed for white,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.56,0:04:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was able to employ his\Nentire family in Portland, Oregon.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.76,0:04:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were times when\Nhe would take Osie, my grandmother,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.68,0:04:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with him for a job,\Nand they would fire him
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.28,0:04:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they realized that\Nhe was married to a black woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.32,0:04:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or sometimes when my grandfather\Nhad all of the kids in the car,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.12,0:04:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white people would\Npass by and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.16,0:04:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What are you doing with\Nall them niggers in your car?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.04,0:04:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were just sort of\Nextraordinary people,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.08,0:05:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what they put in motion\Nis still there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.24,0:05:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my mother and her sisters have\Ncarried on that amazing tradition.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.32,0:05:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I moved away from home\Nwhen I was 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.44,0:05:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to my father and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.16,0:05:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dad, I think I’m ready to\Nmove out on my own.”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.04,0:05:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "you think that you could,\Nlike, move out and pay your rent
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.96,0:05:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and buy your food\Nand all that by yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.84,0:05:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not come back home,\Nlike, every other day for food
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.32,0:05:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or rent or a safe haven?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.68,0:05:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "Yeah, I think I can do that."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.68,0:05:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, "Well, if you think you\Ncan do that, then go do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.60,0:05:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think that you need to\Ncome back home after you've tried it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.04,0:05:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are always, of course,\Nwelcome to come back home,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.52,0:05:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you think you can\Ntake care of yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.52,0:05:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then go take care of yourself."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.48,0:05:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I left home, and\NI haven’t been back since.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.14,0:05:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I went to San Francisco\Nwith my girlfriend.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.52,0:05:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been interested in dance\Nand theater to a certain extent.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.24,0:05:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I just knew how to\Ndance really well.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.88,0:06:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started dancing with\Nthe famous and extraordinary Ann Halprin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.72,0:06:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ann was already really\Ninterested in ideas about peace
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.76,0:06:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and using dance as a way\Nto bridge different cultures together.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.16,0:06:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know what one\Ncould really do with dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.40,0:06:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that it was really the\Nvisual arts that somehow
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.76,0:06:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be more my calling.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.12,0:06:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I had a boyfriend\Nwho was a photographer,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.88,0:06:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he would film all of our parties\Nand happenings and rallies
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.60,0:06:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and demonstrations.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.84,0:06:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were all radicals,\Nliving in San Francisco.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.12,0:06:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he introduced me to photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.96,0:06:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was daydreaming about\Nthe Birmingham Riots in the 1960s.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.28,0:06:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the image started moving.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.16,0:06:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking about one particular\Nphotograph made by Charles Moore,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.68,0:07:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a photograph that I love,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.04,0:07:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Charles Moore didn’t really want\Nme to use his photograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.53,0:07:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.32,0:07:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, then I’m gonna bring\Nthat photograph to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.36,0:07:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll construct that moment."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.52,0:07:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I went to Birmingham,\Nand I pulled out some students,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.40,0:07:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we did a whole series of actions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.61,0:07:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and out of that came this idea\Nto do an entire series of
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.88,0:07:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,re-creations around the idea of 1968.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.90,0:07:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that we were\Nat this incredible moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.16,0:07:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 40 years had elapsed,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.12,0:07:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Martin Luther King had\Ndied 40 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.16,0:07:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it would be important to\Nlook at some things that happened
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.80,0:07:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just before that and\Njust after that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.12,0:07:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you would have to\Nlook at the assassination of Martin.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.72,0:07:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would have to look at the\Nassassination of Malcolm.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.20,0:07:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would have to look at the\Nassassination of Medgar Evers,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.12,0:07:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Robert F. Kennedy,\NJohn F. Kennedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.28,0:07:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this idea of how then we\Narrived at this incredible moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.20,0:08:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I realized that Barack Obama,\Nof course, was running for
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.48,0:08:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the presidency of the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.64,0:08:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This incredible, tumultuous,\Nbrutal history is absolutely what
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.52,0:08:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,makes him possible,\Nthat he could not be in that position
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.96,0:08:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the death of\Nall those people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.16,0:08:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so that he is literally\Nstanding on the ashes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.60,0:08:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the spirit of all those\Nthings that have come before.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.72,0:08:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just thought if\NI didn’t look at those things now,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.48,0:08:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I didn't look at all of\Nthat kind of trauma
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.00,0:08:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mourning,\Nyou know,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.44,0:08:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sadness of the history\Nof the last 40 years, then,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.64,0:08:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, I really wasn't\Nworth my salt.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.92,0:08:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if this work\Nwill be important,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.32,0:08:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know that it's\Nimportant for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.24,0:08:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was important for me\Nto look at this history,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.72,0:08:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to really think about where\Nwe are now, contemporarily.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.72,0:09:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was important for me\Nto consider deeply in my heart
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.04,0:09:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we had arrived\Nat this moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.20,0:09:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so then the idea that\NI would ask a number of students
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.00,0:09:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to assume the roles for themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.36,0:09:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thereby come to\Nknow something about that history–
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.48,0:09:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all those things were really\Nvery important for me to make.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.94,0:09:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Student Gyun Hur:\NThis is the assassination
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.24,0:09:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Robert Kennedy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.84,0:09:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's, I believe, like 1968.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.16,0:09:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I acted in a part of being a busboy,\Nand I think his name is Juan Romero.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.96,0:09:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that time,\Nwhen he got shot,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.48,0:09:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the busboy,\Nwho met him previously,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.24,0:09:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he ran up to him and\Nasked if he was okay
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.00,0:09:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gave him a rosary,\Nso that was the part that I reenacted.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.72,0:09:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an immigrant daughter,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.20,0:09:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as somebody who never\Nexperienced it before–
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.64,0:09:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my parents don't know\Nreally much about this whole thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.44,0:09:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so for me to just come\Ninto that place of understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.88,0:09:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what exactly happened,\NI think that was the hardest.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.51,0:10:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Student Ashley Vieira:\NThis is Kent State,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.44,0:10:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I’m the girl in the photograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.52,0:10:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an extremely emotional situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.08,0:10:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carrie has this ability to\Nevoke emotion in people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.96,0:10:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just from her voice,\Nand it was so soothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.76,0:10:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I got up there,\Nat first I was really nervous,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.20,0:10:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wasn't sure how\NI should become sad
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.08,0:10:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and become in that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.00,0:10:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then once she started talking to me,\Njust all these emotions fled,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.20,0:10:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I–\Nand I cried really hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.86,0:10:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gallery Viewer 1:\NVeronica, the one with
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.08,0:10:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Kent State, I remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.26,0:10:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gallery viewer 2:\NOh, do you?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.74,0:10:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gallery Viewer 1:\NYou know–
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.31,0:10:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah, I remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.17,0:10:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember that actual photograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.72,0:10:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I remember\Nwatching it on television, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.32,0:10:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, some of these are just–\NI mean, just–
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.16,0:10:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so these things have another\Nkind of pitch to it, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.54,0:10:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carrie Mae Weems:\NWhat came out of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.16,0:10:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these photographs,\Nwhich is, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.20,0:10:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I really, really love,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.60,0:10:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is indeed another way of working,\Nthis idea of constructing history.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.76,0:10:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only did I want the students\Nto be doing all the research and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.24,0:10:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studying the reenactment:\Nwhen did the students at Kent State die?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.88,0:11:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who was there?\NWhat was her name?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.28,0:11:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who were the other students\Nthat were killed?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.88,0:11:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had to do all that work,\Nbut then I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.48,0:11:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let’s construct them in a\Nvery sort of high, artificial way,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.82,0:11:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let’s put everybody on a podium,\Nlet’s put everything in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.48,0:11:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then let's show all the tracks.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.84,0:11:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s show all the lights.\NLet’s just show everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.40,0:11:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s just sort of show that all of\Nthe stuff is being constructed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.98,0:11:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film voice over:\NIn this constructed place,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.04,0:11:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.84,0:11:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We revisit the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.08,0:11:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The students examine the facts\Nand will participate
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.44,0:11:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the construction of history,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.88,0:11:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a history that has been\Ntold to them by others.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.36,0:11:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now, with their own bodies,\Nthey engage their own dark terrain,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.60,0:11:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own winter.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.73,0:11:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carrie Mae Weems:\NThe video that goes along
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.56,0:11:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these photographs begins
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.44,0:11:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ends with Hillary Clinton\Nand Barack Obama.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.96,0:11:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then I thought,\N"Oh...oh, oh, oh.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.40,0:12:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well– well, that's the other–\Nthat's part two, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.40,0:12:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s part two.”
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.32,0:12:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's what we're actually doing today.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.60,0:12:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Okay, ladies, let's go.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.44,0:12:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very much in sort of a similar style,\NJohn McCain, Barack Obama,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.24,0:12:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sarah Palin as a beauty queen.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.68,0:12:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve got all these little bombshells\Ncoming to sort of dress up
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.52,0:12:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in high heels and fishnets,\Nand they'll all walk around.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.48,0:12:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now I think that Obama is\Nindeed the president of the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.24,0:12:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it gives the work just\Nthat much more credibility,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.36,0:12:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right, you know, that it has\Nactually a success at the end of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.32,0:12:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Each of you in turn,\Nyou’re going to, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.44,0:12:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come walking towards\Nthe camera. Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.52,0:12:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one of the things\Nthat we’re going to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.20,0:12:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have to set for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.16,0:12:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to start\Nwalking in this direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.64,0:12:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We may have to--
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.44,0:12:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other day,\NI came home from Chicago,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.16,0:12:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I immediately plugged in\Nmy tape recorder,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.16,0:13:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I made a series of\Nphone calls to a number of people,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.48,0:13:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all kinds of people,\Nthat I’ve been in touch with
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.56,0:13:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the last many, many years,\Nto ask them about
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.72,0:13:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they were thinking\Nat that moment that it seemed
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.60,0:13:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that maybe Barack was\Nactually going to be president.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.12,0:13:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke to people who,\Nfor the first time ever, said,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.92,0:13:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My country, my country, my country."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.94,0:13:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.52,0:13:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I think, really,\Nit’s sort of, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.00,0:13:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really claiming yourself,\Nand it's a certain confidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.84,0:13:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're all involved in theater,\Nso you're all going to be working
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.88,0:13:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in front of other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.36,0:13:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think it's even bigger.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.04,0:13:46.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's really about connecting\Nwith a story that is larger than you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.12,0:13:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not about you.\NIt’s not about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.84,0:13:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re using these bodies to\Ntalk about something else
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.16,0:13:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's much bigger\Nthan we are. Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.88,0:14:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so find confidence in the\Nhistorical story that we're gonna
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.48,0:14:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use your body to\Nexpress this story through.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.84,0:14:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one moment,\Nthere was an enormous shift
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.40,0:14:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the American imagination–\Nin one moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.58,0:14:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who had never considered–\NAfrican-Americans who had
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.88,0:14:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never considered this to be home,\Nthis to be a place that represented them,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.16,0:14:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suddenly said, “my country" and\N"my president” and
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.08,0:14:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"my, my, my, my, ours."