Hellblazers

Based on Silvia Federici's groundbreaking book Caliban and the Witch, this essay collage describes the economic shift from a peasant economy into capitalism. The most severe global pandemic in history led to a golden age of peasantry, filled with new freedoms, mobility, diet and rights. The reaction shot came from a ruling class - the church, the new traders, the old kings and queens - who created a system that would erase any trace of the new experiments in collective living, religious freedom and the rights of women. They called it capitalism. —Mike Hoolboom