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On the Battlefield

Newly Added • 16m

Directed by Little Egypt Collective • 2024 • United States

In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist gathers sonic ephemera as he revisits the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts—the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, Cairo, a town famous for confluences and collisions: between North and South; the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers; and Black liberation and white supremacy.

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