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Blood in the Face
IDFA 1991

Blood in the Face

Anne Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, James Ridgeway
United States
1991
n.a.
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Meeting the radical right in America: the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nation, Posse Comitatus, American Nazi Party, Euro-American Alliance, and a number of Canadian fascists. Their openly confessed aim is to forge a coherent political brotherhood to create an Arian State on the North American continent.
Overtly and dauntlessly, they allow filmmakers a glance into their world, a mixture of anti-semitism, racism, extreme nationalism and an aversion to all kinds of foreigners: a paranoid world in which violence is considered a necessary and legitimate revolutionary means.
Without any restraint they denigrate all non-white races and profess their Christian Identity, which is based on the 'theology' that only white people who can blush - who, in other words, can show the blood in their face - are the true Israelites referred to in the Bible.
From their perspective the film shows their heroes from the past: Adolf Hitler and George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. And we are witness of their present activities: gatherings and organizational work, wedding ceremonies with burning crosses, setting up a home video network, pursuing political positions, robbing cars, and killing Alan Berg.
Most alarming is probably their vision of the future: an apocalyptic landscape of racial wars, an invasion of foreigners, the 'balkanizing' of America (segregated racial states) and the downfall of ZOG, the satanic 'Zionist Occupation Government' in Washington, D.C.

Blood in the face also contains a lot of archive material, in the same effective way earlier employed by co-director Kevin Rafferty in the atomic café.
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