Bottled Songs 2: Looking Into the Flames

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of on-line terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Lého Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS). In Bottled Songs 2, Kevin analyses a video described as the “first feature film” produced by ISIS. Struck by the mainstream media’s fascination with it, he explores possible cinematic connections: Nazi propaganda movies, Hollywood, and early leftist revolutionary filmmaking.