WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO
By The Wooster Group
Dir. Elizabeth LeCompte, 1992.
USA. 63 min.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 – 8:00 PM
Introduced by EAI’s Rebecca Cleman and presented by The Wooster Group’s archivist Clay Hapaz

ENCORE SCREENINGS:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 – 10:00 PM
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 10:00 PM

Presented courtesy of The Wooster Group and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

Spectacle is pleased to welcome legendary downtown performance troupe The Wooster Group for a very special screening of WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO, their 1992 short feature that represents the group’s first work conceived solely for video rather than stage.

Referencing the form of the then-new police procedural drama and law enforcement reality TV, WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO, written for the company by Michael Kirby in 1986, is composited from actual accounts of urban hate crimes to tell the story of a four-member task force assigned to infiltrate a New York City white supremacist organization. Split into eight chapters, the video by cinematographer Ken Kobland is rendered in an incredibly synthetic style with heavily processed imagery and brilliant colors, elevating the faux-documentary television drama format into the unreal. Company members Ron Vawter, Jeff Webster, Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Nancy Reilly, Anna Köhler, Michael Stumm, and Willem Dafoe star. David Van Tieghem composed the original music.

The Wednesday, October 1 show will be presented by Wooster Group archivist Clay Hapaz and introduced by Rebecca Cleman of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). We’re also holding encore screenings on Wednesday, October 8 and Monday, October 13, both at 10:00 pm.

We’re also very pleased to present alongside other Wooster Group screenings organized by our friends at The Silent Barn and Microscope Gallery. Don’t miss The Wooster Group’s incredible 1977/2013 feature Rumstick Road on Monday, September 29 at The Silent Barn followed by another evening of Wooster rarities at Microscope Gallery on Friday, October 3.