16mm restoration by BB Optics. Bill Brand’s 1984 document of unionized struggle in West Virginia makes clear that, contrary to current understandings, design and decoration are not antithetical to serious political commitment. As voices on the soundtrack recount the struggle against industrial bosses for safety and equity amongst the miners, the image flickers and flutters in optically-printed mosaics of location photography. We might take these as a brutally elegant visualization of the state of ravaged lungs, riven with patches of black. Form does not clarify a political understanding, it renders it indelible. With poetic text by Kimiko Hahn