Declaration of Independence (revised)

"Tourists in DC" is a documentary about a group of friends who traveled to Washington DC to participate in the anti-war protests during the last weekend of September 2005. Most of them went thinking it would be just like a long weekend vacation. Many wanted to experience the events from the periphery, maintaining a somewhat detached objectivity. By the end of the actions, two of the group ended up in jail, another two, armed with a megaphone and a guitar, performed a re-written version of the Declaration of Independence in front of the White House, as marchers streamed by to cross the barricades and get arrested. They recorded their experiences on personal camcorders. Undercover agents dressed as demonstrators trying to instigate a riot was among the scenes they captured.

"Tourists in DC" was constructed entirely of these home video recordings. It documents their personal journeys from a somewhat playful and irreverent detachment to finding themselves in the center of the action.