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OVID streaming channel (Annotated Field Guide , Communist Trilogy, Selected Shorts )
Antofacine / New Languages Competition, Antofagasto, Chile, Nov 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant)
exground filmfest 34 / Wiesbaden, Germany, Nov 12-21, 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Anthology Film Archives / NYC, Sept 17-26, 2021 (Annotated Field Guide theatrical release + Retrospective)
Linea d'Ombra Festival / Salerno, Italy Oct 23-30, 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant)
Harvard Film Archive / Boston, Oct 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant)
Doclisboa programme for TVCine / Portugal, July-Dec 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant)
Documenta Madrid / Closing Night program, Spain, May-June 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Frontera Sur International Nonfiction Film Festival / Concepción, Chile, July 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Festival of Tolerance / Zabreb, Croatia, July 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Sheffield Doc/Fest / UK, June 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Festiival di Cinema del Real / International Competition, Sardinia, Italy, May 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Prismatic Ground / Maysles Center & Stream Slate, NYC, April 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
BAFICI / Competencia Americana, Argentina, March 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
59th Ann Arbor Film Festival / March 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
Doclisboa / Portugal, March 2021 (The Annotated Field Guide...)
NEWS
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant is a musical 16mm documentary following Grant's destruction of the fake white supremacist country called the Confederate States of America.
For four years in the 1860’s half of the United States was held hostage by an unrecognized white supremacist republic. Shot on 16mm in national military parks, swamps, forests and the suburban sprawl across the former battlefields, the film follows General Grant’s path liberating the southern United States. It focuses not only on his battles but on massacres committed by Confederate armies and the role of enslaved people in the war. With additional illustrations and animations from hex & counter wargames and bubblegum cards that were popular after the Centennial Anniversary of the Civil War, the film features original music and a sweet sound design.
"...Although the 16mm photography has a faded, almost nostalgic beauty, the more we learn about the battles that took place on those grounds, the more apparent it is that we’re looking at haunted lands. It’s not just the ghosts of the fallen that come to mind, though — it’s the nation’s regrettable repetition of the mistakes of the past, as racism remains among America’s most divisive issues... as an idiosyncratic perspective on wilful blindness and moral failure, Finn’s essay film grows in power as it moves along. Its final segment adroitly connects the nation’s white-supremacist past to its present, making plain that The Annotated Field Guide is no mere history lesson..."
— Tim Grierson in Screen Daily (UK)
CONTACT
Jim Finn: finn.jim@gmail.com
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