January 19th

[digital video, 5 minutes, 2008]






Using footage from Agnes Verda’s “The Vagabond” and text from Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans,” the video incorporates documentation of and reflection upon a stint at the National Training Center for the military in Fort Irwin, California. Intelligence officer Lieutenant Kelly LaVorgna is pictured as well as footage from one of the combat simulations.