The Nation Is Bankrupt
The Nation Is Bankrupt tells the story of the financial crisis through the fictional love letters of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
The videos, Before covers a seminal weekend at the Federal Reserve in September 2008 and While covers the decade following it, are in part an alternative and more libidinal history of the financial crisis, and an exploration of the metaphoric creep of neoliberalism into all areas of life. Not quite fiction and not quite satire, the letters are a cry in the dark from an insular world that continues to bring us all to the brink of financial, physical and moral ruin.
While The Nation Went Bankrupt (2009-2015)
Letter To Judy
Screenings
Simultan Festival XV: The Unstable State of Things, Timișoara, Romania, September 11-19, 2021
Before The Nation Went Bankrupt (September 2008)
Before The Nation Went Bankrupt, 2016, HD Video, 37 minutes
September 2008. The economy is in ruins, an unprecedented boom is over. The CEOs of the biggest banks have been summoned to the Federal Reserve, in lower Manhattan, for an entire weekend. Their task: to solve the world economy and to rewrite the rules of finance. Not much is known about what happened that weekend at the Federal Reserve. Until now.
Screenings
Economia, Eindhoven, NE April 28-30, 2017
Debt+ , Flux Factory, Queens, NY. June 3, 24, 2016
Before The Nation Went Bankrupt Episodes
Letter To Lover #1
Screenings
Index Art Center, Newark, NJ April 22, 2017
Letter To Lover #2
Screenings
Digital BigScreen Trbovje, Solvenia, September 14-16 2017
Letter To Bill Winters
Screenings
Ojo De Agua Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 31, 2020
Barcelona Short Film & Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain, October 23-30, 2020
Code+ Festival 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 16-17, 2018
Now & After International Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia, February 7-16, 2018
Transmission Video Art Festival, July 20-23, 2017
UND#9,Dragonenkaserne Karlsruhe, Germany
Komuna//Warszawa, Warszawa, Poland
Documenta 14, KMMN Kulturbahnhof, Kassel Germany