5-cent American Flag
5-cent American Flag takes a forensic approach to the conspiracy-fueled events of JFK’s assassination, creating an abstract cryptopolitical thriller that asks: which flags are we flying? More than 4,800 unique stamps from 1963 anxiously flutter across the screen, its cancellation marks and slogans becoming coded messages. When words are absent, custom rubber stamps applied to clear leader form black airwaves and red-inked U.S. flags are stamped and folded into the reel, transforming into pareidolic bloodstain patterns.
- Language English
- Country Belgium, United States
- Genre Experimental
- Cinematographer Vito A. Rowlands
- Producer Vito A. Rowlands
- Music Jordan Dykstra
- Editor Vito A. Rowlands
- Animation Vito A. Rowlands
- Year of creation 2024
- Duration 00:06:15
Vito A. Rowlands is a Belgian filmmaker and scholar. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an instructor at Mono No Aware in Brooklyn. Vito’s experimental films have screened at festivals and venues around the world, and his first feature is the Metamorphoses-inspired 35mm anthology film Ovid, New York (2024).
