(Preview clip from 22 min. film.)

Afghanistan 1985 is a video re-casting of Ronald Reagan into the film Rambo III. Replacing Sylvester Stallone, Reagan fights side by side with John Wayne, the Taliban and other Jihaadists against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Created entirely from appropriated film footage, the comedic film explores the strata of propaganda as it weaves through politics, film, and American national sense of self (manifest destiny, the lone hero, winning the West) and how that fiction is used to leverage popular support for war.