activists who thought that a lot of food is too good for the garbage and became innovative entrepreneur and in the process. 60 minutes. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see myself as the kids find. my own objective is to share with a friend. who does the books on youtube. you know. they still let. the possibility for real violence in the country it's real. business. it takes someone very very strong to run this country and in my eyes i think is doing a very good job. of

deep divide is splitting america politically economically i'm supposed to really this is a journey through this so-called land of opportunity. writers filmmakers and let's all go 1st capture the current mood in the states. our 1st stop is new york city. and. new york used to be the city that never sleeps that was before codes and the pandemic seems past its peak here but the big apple is still far from being back to normal. on weekends when the weather is good people can at least gather and central part

they were masks to keep saying. donald trump during his election campaign even back that few well known artists and intellectuals supported him and this hasn't changed since although now 4 years later when people know what to expect warnings about reelecting trumpets president castro more action and. we've come to new york to meet 3 of the most renowned authors in the country. to find out what they expect and worry about and. paul auster. the beginning of the. democracy as rehabilitate the city of houston that i think we are in danger of losing this democratic republic and. we live in a corporate totalitarian autocracy. as turns books have been translated into more than 20 languages he's also written no one printing place like disgraced. god.

and i think he's going to feel. that. if i'm honest. yes. in his new novel homeland elegies actor describes the experiences of an author he named. his father is a doctor who treated and may have become a trance supporting. the russian will reveal what he made up and what is real in the book but his view of america is clearly expressed in these pages. i think that in the last 50 years and this is the story that i tell in the last 50 years some notion of a collective good began to evaporate and what rose out of that dissolution was a commitment

a fierce commitment to the individual i what i want what i need america is about protecting my rights my rights to have a gun if i want it to make as much money as i want to use whatever bathroom i want . it's all the same that's not a vision of a collective society one come like tim that has lasted just a couple of auster and cd. they've been married for 40 years and they're one of the most famous literary couples in the us. each time one of them writes a new book the other is its 1st reader and critic. both believe trumps reelection would pose a threat to democracy which is why together with other authors they have set up the platform writers against. trying weekly online discussions and weaponize they make the point that the u.s. election in 2020 could be the most important in

a generation. the pressure of living under the trumpet ministration and watching day to day their erosion of institutions that i think many americans thought were reasonably safe has been a shocking experience and it's affected me personally i have been writing. more political essays than i ever have in my life. i have spent more time thinking about what i as one person can do to counter what is happening i think we are in danger of losing the democratic republic. their daughter sophie and her friends manage the social media presence of writers against trump. as writers we know we're here they matter because.

we have a choice to make for our future for the future of our children the reaction from the republican party could mean the end of democracy in america discussions of. an effort to get out the vote. the vote of young people on the progressive side of things who are not happy with the by. and of the so i did not vote i mean there are a lot of these are you list the young people who say i don't want to contaminate myself with this guy i don't like any of it well it's it's a dangerous position at this time to have because by not voting they're essentially voting for what they don't want to which is trumping the republican presidential candidates cannot be more different are the plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly. and the country is more officially divided and in over 50 years but deficient and bigotry are not new in the us they were already well established when

city that's grandparents emigrated from norway and lost everything during the great depression. but they were left wing but their prejudices were very similar to right wing prejudices today and elite prejudice they railed against bankers and i think one has to remember that bankers. at the time and it remains a code for june in the context and city slickers people who lived in the cities urban types fancy types my grandparents were really had those prejudices what's happened in that part of the world now is that it's flipped from left to right. but it's all it goes away back. until recently new york was known as a center of arts and culture the city often plays trials of the rest of the royal

family. now survival especially the economic kind is the main priority and not just for artists and 2016 almost each percentage in our perspective democrats get donald trump this is. publican president who has been and. a trump this reelected residents here fear it will become even harder to get federal funding to face the chrono cross sense. and the u.s. has already been seen crying and rest for instance overpacked lives matter and over measures aimed at stemming the spread of covert 19. even the words civil war are frequently. what will this country's future look like if it continues down this path. the possibility for real violence in the country it's real that could happen but i don't know how the next few weeks are going to unfold but there is a scenario in which contested power leads to trump calling

for resistance and if that happens then i think the gloves come off. regardless of who wins the election it's difficult to feel optimistic about the current situation and what lies ahead for america difficult but not impossible. i'm optimistic about the present i'm optimistic about the joy that one can experience here and now with those one loves doing things that one loves to do helping others. but i don't think. any of us is going to escape death so i'm probably ultimately pessimistic. i mean that's what you get when you ask me a question like that. new yorkers are worried but how do americans outside of the major cities feel we spoke to 2 photographers who delved

into the division within the us. tall and strong face time and. the daughters and sons of a nation. upright and serious. portraits tells a story. they all stand for themselves. and thousands of them all they have in common is their homeland the u.s. . these pictures were taken by swiss photographers monica fischer and materials prussian or. they took them during a 5 month journey across the country together with their son elias. road trip took them to 40 states for the desert to brew their city's suburbs and saw. the river they went they kept their eyes open for interesting characters. are found

to be converted into mobile photo studio. by the end of the trip the sets up took just 20 minutes. they opted for whites a neutral backdrop. such as everyone was on the same level in front of the camera whether the subject was a top notch the scientist of texas or a welder in ohio. at the mines we met most of them spontaneously either we looked for them an interesting locations or we just saw them while driving and decided to set up. i think. this is brenda this is brenda and that gun is always loaded. he came to air. they were camping there he and his colleague brenda they said sure you can stay with us we'll keep watch this and he pulled out his gun and said you're safe don't worry we said that sounds good thanks they were conservative republicans real gun

in those ists she said that god had sent trump personally but they were so nice to us thought it was from fanatical trump funds to his enemies from proud patriots to people who are worried about the future of the country this was couple filmed their muscles and every class of us society by withholding any judgment and proceeding with curiosity they were able to make connections with all kinds of different people. the family divides its time between switzerland and new york. this last road trip give them a whole new insights into the us and into why people voted for trump. microstates on n.b.c. best it's easier to understand if you travel across the u.s. i think the american dream the promise of it is sort of shattered if you travel

across the us today especially in the center there are so many places where half the stores have shut down where life isn't that great and where there aren't so many prospects now lots of people work double jobs and yet they're barely making ends meet. and so they're frustrated and their faith in that if they work hard enough their children will be ok is being eroded i think that's linked to why a phenomenon like trump it an absolute populist op became possible. to better understand their models the photographers interview them about their homeland. hadlee tate a rodeo rider from wyoming said nobody she knew. to democrats. during the time it takes someone very very strong to run this country and in my eyes i think he's doing a big job so i just say thank you and then i'd probably get a selfie with him or something like that i don't know who. he really is

a makeup artist from las vegas how did very different take on trump one minute with the president my personal message to him would be. women going crazy for no reason you also need to get a grip and start treating women right because we really run this country and you're trying to oppress us in some way like we're going to be extinct no women are going to be around for ever so we're going to have to learn how to deal with us and give us rights that we deserve that we've had since before you were the president. if you talk to people about personal matters you don't see this divide which even runs through families or friendships but as soon as you bring up politics things get emotional. bits in the school it's like an underlying feeling that you notice it everywhere we photographed firefighters at a fire station in michigan and the doctor in there was very clear no politics no

religion no talking about any of that stuff. why not yes he knew how because people would start arguing. the divides really are deeply entrenched over here going on but it was great it can get nasty because people are so far apart at the moment why put it on them priyanka moment thought it would you not the issue is so emotionally charged but when you're on duty together it can't interfere the. other . monica fisher of materials pressures larger than life pictures are on show at the stop for house museum in lynchburg new suroosh. the exhibition's name could also be this year's u.s. election slogan divided we stand. the diverse states in less united at least seen from the outside but what's the

deal like from the inside. in germany people are also looking at the us right now. a photo of the basin in hamburg shows pictures of america that expose the myth of the american dream. magnum photographer matt black called this personal inventory of poverty migration and powerlessness american geography. using bold black and white images he depicts the underdogs in the lands of endless north abilities. the photographs look as if they were taken in another time. runs off is a bit off when i look at these pictures i have to remind myself that we are in the 21st century and. it's a powerful show and a world premiere which the photographer couldn't attend because of coronavirus.

black grew up in california the public image let's say of disneyland of silicon valley of. hollywood all of that exists. but there is another california where it's hot weather is desert where farming is done for transfer itself and that's the one he comes from. that black began to document that california in 2014 the sadness the desolation the struggle for survival. for 5 years the photographer traveled through the u.s. by bus it was that it hundreds of places his residence live far below the poverty line he gathered data discovered things. that people who don't have health insurance unemployment benefits or any means of support. the photographer recorded his observations in

a diary. i drive north to flint past buick city which was once the largest automobile plant in the world in 1900 general motors employed 80000 people in flint today there are fewer than 8000 people living here. matt black's photographs tell stories about loss about lost jobs security and confidence. in one interview he said. when it comes to power in the u.s. it's always a question of race as well. my work also deals with the same issues who has access to power and who is excluded. as is a perspective of this perspective of change or perhaps simply of the future is omitted in the pictures the spot and she did it and this creates

a glimpse of something of a completely contradicts the american dream i mean. that black isn't trying to take shocking. he keeps a distance and doesn't turn to the dignity of those who are struggling what's shocking is that these images show the present day looking at them the campaign slogan from 4 years ago to make america great again crumbles as a hollow promise the current reality looks very different. cover to discrimination and police violence or problems that have many citizens riled up and also some filmmakers. from the. black live matter protests existed before trump but the trump presidency has energized the movement before the election films by in about black people films that look at themes of racism and police violence have

taken center stage. after the killing of george floyd director spike lee post the film editing real life footage with a similar chokehold death of eric garner in 2014 and scenes from his own 1909 film do the right thing the right thing is based upon the real love chokehold murder. and then. not just by strangulation while i was being shot dead with guns. in the heat you give me 2 years into the trunk presidency an innocent black man is shot dead on the plane over. the result of violence and a fight for justice about black people poor people everybody at the bottom ringback ringback. in the documentary time a woman struggles to get her husband released from

a 60 year prison sentence for robbery. my ways. regarding my husband. i was wondering if you might have any information like i needed to tell me oh and. thank you so much. that films like this go beyond protest rhetoric show the fate of real people the movies have helped shine a new light on the black lives matter movement. but tweens of the 18 need to make. sure they know what. little means to have a father outside father. they think that it has given people a different land with which to evaluate that movement and i think that there were some people who make quietly been more dismissive of that movement. radical or

violent or awful porter's response to black lives matter was to look back at the obama presidency to the lens of official white house photographer pete sosa just like yours 1st of all bent over the what their kid touches her head with his hand that image stands for how kids will see themselves differently for ever seeing those photos again but they tell a story. not only about president obama but really about the office and how important institution. and i realized it way. i think like a lot of people it kind of took for granted the stability. that the prior administration. i saw who is this man how does he feel the crisis leadership character and empathy such a wish we have that now god. the current us president seems less interested in

finding common cause than in demonizing black lives matter. the stated goal of b.l.m. organization people is to achieve the destruction of the nuclear family abolish the police abolish prisons abolish border security abolish capitalism and abolish school choice that's what their stated goals are for m.l.k. f.b.i. looks back to government attempts to suppress the civil rights struggle of the 1960 s. the director sees a parallel to trump today when shoppers out there are making frequent to claiming that the suburbs will be destroyed and subtext since it's those people of color are going to come in and destroy you can the. law and order 'd mean simply in america black people out of the equation that dr king gave his famous march on washington pollard hopes his film can help americans to remember their own history. in

a memo dated the 30th of august no later than that. the 2nd person in the f.b.i. has been solved. since the curtain. there which he said. after the march on washington. it's clear that martin luther king jr is the most dangerous negro. in america part of my agenda as of that which you still make is to deal with these issues that look at racism and social change i mean that's. and for me way back when i wasn't. in this continued with the rise and fall jim crow. you know what's. in the instance and it's a part of my. soul williams has also spent a career looking at what it means to be black in america in a kill is a skate which premiered at the toronto film festival williams plays a drug dealer looking to break out of a life of crime. a

slam poet a rapper and a filmmaker williams was and is always an activist 1st. just received word in work like multimedia piece martyr loser king he matches up the past current events and virtual reality to break with an american history that leaves out black voices bias and you can look at you know the history of lynching in this country through the history of police violence or the history of policing and ordering laws and all of these things and go this is not civilized. this is barbaric. artists and filmmakers continue to draw strength and inspiration from black lives matter and not just ahead of the election they are already looking to the time beyond the trump presidency. that. there will be

you know question of how we got here but then also what we did after and i think like like i want to be part of the what we did after. for the time after trying it is the younger generation who hope that their voices will be heard. and that was our road trip through america's cultural scene after the election the next path will become clearer thanks to one. change and stay well. clear. of the.

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