Second Seed is an ongoing body of work (live performance, lecture, discussion, and film) responding to D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman. Griffith’s film is an assertion of White supremacy, and a veneration of the KKK.  It’s a call to arms against the changing social/racial structure of America.  Our film confronts the myth of Griffith’s “helpless white minority,” and the cult of white-victimhood’s enduring impact on American polity. Second Seed is our collision with this American artifact.