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Floyd Webb(I)

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In the wake of a stinging CIA report showing that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction comes a new film prompted by the foreign policy failures of the Bush administration. AXIS OF EVIL is a feature-length documentary directed by Carmine Cervi that deconstructs the rhetoric of the PresidentÂ’s catch phrase and illuminates the ways in which our government manipulates truth, language, and the media to hijack popular culture and opinion.

Provocative artwork from over 50 artists create a backdrop for interviews with 16 journalists, artists, scholars, and activists, including Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Bernardine Dohrn, James Weinstein, and others, AXIS OF EVIL explores the concept of evil and how it has been used to justify political and military actions. But unlike most recent Bush-bashing documentaries, the film addresses the broad, complex, and interwoven issues of terrorism, racism, militarism, and other such social ills. ItÂ’s a reasoned discussion of evil as it truly exists in our society, rather than a polemic against the war in Iraq.

But make no mistake; this is not a film that sits on the fence. The activists behind AXIS OF EVIL are deeply concerned with a society that has been drifting away from democratic principles, and they hope to provoke an intelligent consideration of the current state of the union. As dissent, debate, and discussions--like the one contained in this film--become increasingly supplanted by spin, symbolism, and sound bites, the need for voices like those in AXIS OF EVIL becomes only greater.

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Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam (2004)

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Floyd Webb is a Chicago-based filmmaker, photographer, curator, writer, and cultural producer with a career spanning more than five decades. Working across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Japan, Webb has built a body of work exploring Black history, diaspora, memory, technology, and cultural resistance through documentary film, photojournalism, visual effects, and independent media infrastructure. Webb is Executive Producer of Legally Drugged (2026), a feature film slated for fall release, and is in production on A Good Eye: Capturing Joy, a documentary on the experiential relationship between photography and the Black community. He serves as production historian and creative partner to director Mandla Dube on Yasuke, Way of the Butterfly, in production through the Toei and Pambla Media partnership. His credits include Julie Dash's landmark Daughters of the Dust, John Akomfrah's Last Angel of History and The March, The World of Nat King Cole, United Skates, and Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Cameroonian science-fiction film Les Saignantes (The Bloodettes). He has worked in 3D animation and visual effects in London, and his documentary Kiku's Legacy explores the lives of Afro-Japanese children born during the American occupation of Japan. Webb is the founder of the Blacklight Film Festival (Chicago, 1982), Blacknuss Network, and Blacknuss dot tv, platforms dedicated to the exhibition, preservation, and global circulation of Black and independent cinema. From 2005 to 2020 he curated the Black World Cinema screening series in Chicago, connecting international Black filmmakers with new audiences. He continues to write, lecture, curate, and produce work at the intersection of Black cultural memory, media systems, and independent film in the digital age.