America is descending into violence. The president blames the radical left. Soldiers are sent in to curb supposedly violent protests. The death toll mounts.
This is May 1970 and a single month of war, civil war and music has been anatomised by Naeem Mohaiemen in his three-channel film Through a Mirror, Darkly. Mohaiemen had no way of knowing it would open as the US entered a frightening new phase of the second Trump presidency, with the shot that struck down rightwing activist Charlie Kirk echoing through sinister attempts to suppress dissent. Where will it end?
