The Perlin Papers

Inspired by a 250,000-page archive of documents related to the investigation, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, The Perlin Papers is a film that deploys a variety of narrative and documentary strategies to recreate the mood of paranoia during this turbulent period of American history. The title comes from an archive named after a distant relative of the artist, a civil liberties lawyer who successfully fought to have the documents declassified.