The Length of Day

The Length of Day tells the emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance animating FBI documents, political buttons, and appropriated scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni films to communicate with her deceased communist grandparents. The film mourns in multiple timelines; young radicals losing their ideals in the face of history, the death of the protagonists, and the loss of an alternative to capitalism.