Mary Ellen Carroll's Federal

Museum of the Moving Image will present a non-stop screening of Mary Ellen Carroll’s Federal, from 9am Saturday, March 24, through 9am the next day. The 24-hour twin-screen movie was made by shooting the north and south facades of the Federal Building in Los Angeles for an entire day in 2003. Acknowledging Andy Warhol’s legendary eight-hour film Empire, Federal is a remarkably timely work that explores U.S. national security in the post-9/11 social and political landscape. The building houses divisions of the State Department, the FBI, and the CIA. Its documentation turns these high-level government agencies from watchers to the watched. Carroll will be present for an artist's talk at 4pm on March 24.