A meditation on dark money, family and ideology; my father worked for a petrochemical company his entire life. The son of the founder of that company started a family foundation in 1969, which spent more than 350 million dollars in support of the creation of a conservative counterintelligentsia. They funded hundreds of fellows, endowed faculty lines, were the main funder and originator of the Federalist Society, the Law and Economics movement, and much more. The film uses my families, both that of my birth and the one I have chosen to create, to look at the way we live within ideology, how ideas of family itself constructs and limits our ideas of care.
Lee Anne Schmitt is an essay filmmaker; her projects have addressed American exceptionalism, the logic of utility and labour, gestures of kindness and refusal, and the history of racial violence in the United States.
