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Issue 01 — Birth of a Nation



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MONOCHROMATOR
deconstructs selected films under a shared monochrome to reconstruct them for
social relevance, putting the cinematic, the cultural, the artistic and the
political in dialogue.

The first issue of
MONOCHROMATOR
deconstructs Barbie and Oppenheimer under a shared monochrome of “Birth of a
Nation.” In 1945, the United States was reborn as the empire we experience,
through the hard military power of the atomic bomb and the ‘soft’ capitalist
power of corporations such as Mattel.
MONOCHROMATOR
takes Barbenheimer and proposes to rethink the blockbuster phenomenon within the
landscape of current political and social discourses.
In “Refraction,” we uproot and replant the phenomenon of Barbenheimer through a
trip to Walmart. In “Wavelength,” we displace Barbie and Oppenheimer. We look at
their spatial, existential, and democratic contexts, and imagine if Barbie were
a biopic and Oppenheimer were a fantasy. In “Interference,” we look into the
said and the unsaid of Barbenheimer.
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   Leslie Groves and J.R. Oppenheimer, 1942 © United States Department of Energy
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   1912 image of women assembling dolls © National Archives at College Park
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   Barbie’s Dreamhouse Adventures TV series poster
 © Mattel Creations, 2018
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   Security poster for Manhattan Project © Retrieved October 10, 2014 from
   Leslie R. Groves, Ed. (~1948) Manhattan District History, Manhattan Project,
   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Book IV: Pile Project, Vol. 6: Operations,
   Appendix B, C, D & E, p. 109
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   Leslie Groves and J.R. Oppenheimer, 1942 © United States Department of Energy
 * 
   1912 image of women assembling dolls © National Archives at College Park
 * 
   Barbie’s Dreamhouse Adventures TV series poster
 © Mattel Creations, 2018
 * 
   Security poster for Manhattan Project © Retrieved October 10, 2014 from
   Leslie R. Groves, Ed. (~1948) Manhattan District History, Manhattan Project,
   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Book IV: Pile Project, Vol. 6: Operations,
   Appendix B, C, D & E, p. 109

Refraction Editor’s Letter: Birth of a Nation / Alex Heeyeon Kil
Wavelength Weighted Hopes, Harmonic Synthesizer / Jina Lee Invented Places,
Faraway Follies / Sharon Lam Now I am Become Death: Creation and Existentialism
in the American Imaginary / Forrest Cardamenis American Narcissus / Kenneth
Geurts The Postfeminist Delusion / Nicole Froio Manhattan, Mattel, and the
Democratic Myths of America / Will DiGravio Interference Birth of a Nation was
the Death of Indigenous Peoples / Editorial Team Dolls of War, War of Dolls /
Daeseon Lee Behind Enemy Lines: On the American Blockbuster / Rafaela Bassili We
Cannot Care For Who We Are Unable to Relate to / Rosalia Namsai Engchuan



MONOCHROMATOR ISSUE 01

Publisher:  Veronica Jinseon Yu
Editor-in-Chief:  Alex Heeyeon Kil
Design:  Cleo Tew and Alex Walker with assistance from June Yang

Contributors:  Rafaela BassiliForrest CardamenisWill DiGravioRosalia Namsai
EngchuanNicole Froio
 Kenneth GeurtsSharon Lam
 Daeseon LeeJina Lee
Printing:  Wilco BV Amersfoort
Press:  Monochromator Press


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