In the 1860s and 70s the so-called Molly Maguire murders rocked Pennsylvania’s anthracite region and made national headlines. A VAGUE DREAD SEEMS TO SILENCE THE TONGUE attempts to conjure the specter of violence that emerged out of the racial animus and labor struggles of the Civil War in the present day, setting the bloody events of the late 19th century against the contemporary landscape of a fading coal economy.
Language: English
Subtitles: Italian
Director
Edward Kihn
Edward Kihn’s work ranges across documentary and experimental cinema, photography and installation, and focuses on entanglements of politics, technology and labor--especially as they reflect and shape the particularities of place. He teaches Film Studies at CUNY.
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