“I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either,” President Trump told a room full of reporters at a press conference following the Unite the Right white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, which resulted in the vehicular homicide of Heather Heyer. Occurring nearly one year ago today, the event was a chilling reminder of the festering hatred of the alt-right that has been invigorated by Trump and his rhetoric.
At this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, director Adam Bhala Lough (The New Radical) premiered a new documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which explores this divide in our country–one of, if not the first, to specifically look at the tragedy in Charlottesville in feature-length form. Featuring interviews with activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins and alt-right leader Richard Spencer, it explores both sides with more nuance than our President might. Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures, we have the exclusive first trailer for the documentary ahead of a release on August 17.
John Fink said in his review, “The documentary focuses largely on the face of the alt-right movement and instant meme Richard Spencer, a University of Chicago-educated ‘academic’ quick to call someone a ‘cuck,’ but barely able to recognize the death of Heather Heyer as a tragedy. The documentary allows its frat boy subject to talk himself into incoherency, propagating the need for a white ethnostate and greeting movement supporters with a ‘Heil Victory.'”
See our exclusive trailer premiere below.
In the first year of Trump’s presidency, tensions between the rising Alt-Right and civil rights leaders boil over. “Alt-Right: Age of Rage” is a hard-hitting investigation into both sides culminating in the tragic events of Charlottesville.
Alt-Right: Age of Rage opens on August 17.