From the cinematic ruins of drive-in theaters in the rural American south, a ghostly zombie projector reanimates the decayed screen for a new life. "American Values" is a catch-all phrase projected around the world, in both magnanimous and self-serving ways. This projection on a decaying screen poses a question of whether those values can withstand their aging process or crumble in the face of authoritarian movements and vast inequalities. Here, the shifting currents of economics have begun to yield to the colonizing forces of nature.