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In the 1860s and 70s the so-called Molly Maguire assassinations rocked Pennsylvania’s anthracite region and made national headlines. A Vague Dread Seems to Silence the Tongue attempts to conjure the specter of violence that emerged out of the racial animus and labor struggles of the Civil War in the present day, setting the bloody events of the late 19th century against the contemporary landscape of a fading coal economy.

Edward Kihn’s work ranges across documentary and experimental cinema, photography and installation, and focuses on entanglements of politics, technology and labor--especially as they reflect and shape the particularities of place. He has received awards and fellowships from organizations such as NYFA and the Whitney Independent Study program and his work has been shown at venues such as Ji.Hlava, CPH:DOX, MSPIFF, Mimesis, Arquiteturas, Artists Space and others. He teaches Film Studies and media production at CUNY and UCSD.