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The Book of the Dead
David Kelley's The Book of the Dead is an experimental documentary focusing on the Gauley Tunnel tragedy, a protracted industrial accident in the early 1930s in West Virginia. 2,000 primarily Black migrant workers dug a tunnel through solid silica that left many of them dead from silicosis, a lung disease caused by breathing silica dust. Kelley's film is an adaptation of a screenplay written by Muriel Rukeyser, and along with some of her poetry and related congressional hearings, utilizes actors, theatrical sets, and 3D generated backgrounds to produce a multisensory experience of Rukeyser's work.
Specifically, The Book of the Dead is based on three of Rukeyser's poems that manifest as discrete scenes depicting various figures connected to the tragedy like Emma Jones, for instance, who lost three sons and her husband to silicosis. Part of Kelley's interpretation of Rukeyser's work is to change the race of certain characters from white to black, reflecting more accurately the demographic of the workers who died in the incident.
Unable to travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kelley designed the West Virginia mining sets in a 3D gaming software and filmed actors at a green screen studio close to his home in Los Angeles. Kelley's The Book of the Dead functions as a memorial to the 2,000 predominantly Black miners who died of silicosis, perhaps like Rukeyser's poem. The work's theme of failure to breathe poignantly resonates with the current Covid-19 pandemic, and the final words turned protest chant of George Floyd: I can't breathe.
The Book of The Dead, 2022
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The Book of The Dead, 2022
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The Book of The Dead, 2022
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The Book of The Dead, 2022
4K single-channel video
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