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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Revisiting: Filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his Emmy-nominated film The Neutral Ground
Description: The 2015 vote of the New Orleans City Council to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds was met with death threats, protests, lawsuits, and rallies. Writer and comedian CJ Hunt, curious “why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America” covered the hearings and protests. The result of Hunt’s exploration is a documentary called *The Neutral Ground--*a personal, disturbing, sometimes-funny, and informative exploration of the struggle over the removal of the monuments in New Orleans. But more broadly, the film, an official selection of the both the Tribeca Film Festival and AFI Docs, is an examin...