by Travis Wilkerson
Introduction by Oskar Hallberg
Tuesday 12 April 2016
7pm

An Injury to One (2002), 53min

An Injury to One reconstructs the unsolved murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history. Archival footage mixes with deftly deployed intertitles, while the lyrics to traditional mining songs are accompanied by music from Will Oldham, Jim O’Rourke, and the band Low, producing an appropriately moody, effulgent, and strangely out-of-time soundtrack.

Oskar’s Gold Nuggets is an ongoing series of film screenings where our neighbor and cineaste Oskar Hallberg from Cinema Panora presents a film in dialogue with the current exhibition on view.