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SILHOUETTE CITY :: Director’s Statement
The word “apocalypse” comes from the Greek “apocalypsis” – meaning to “unveil” that which is hidden. A meaningful unveiling occurred in my home state of Arkansas in 1985. News reports of a remote group of angry militants – an underclass group of rural dissenters driven to radical acts by some profound alienation from the rest of society. This group, The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord or CSA, were portrayed as an isolated but dangerous return of the darkest forces of the Southern psyche (the dual use of the acronym CSA was both deliberate and clear). Here was an apocalyptic Christian Patriot cult preparing for the imminent arrival of divine judgement of secular society by building an exemplary city in the Ozark hills called Zarephath-Horeb (after the city and hill to which the prophet Elijah fled after upstaging the prophets of Baal). Read more
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2008-2010
Social Satisfaction Media