Where do I Come From, Where do I Go
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant
Jim Finn
2020 • USA • 62’
Portuguese Premiere
For four years in the 1860s, half of the United States was held hostage by an unrecognised 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. Part travelogue, part essay film, part landscape documentary, it moves from the Texas-Louisiana border to a prison island off the coast of New England. The sound and music are inspired by 1970s crime films to celebrate the destruction of the Confederacy with the synth jams they deserve.