Televised footage of the Rodney King/Reginald Denny beatings is re-presented as a hand-processed meditation on how media images of racial violence compromise and prejudice viewers’ perceptions of race.
Also in this combined programme
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Work and Progress
Beautiful split-screen film about Russian buildings and spaces with fragments from early Soviet films. -
Energy Energy
Found-footage film made up of industrial films, instruction films and promotional films from the first half of the 20th century. -
Death in Vignole
Modest meditation on youth, life and mortality made up almost entirely from professionally made family films. -
Déjà vu
An exotic found-footage jewel. The views of Western tourists about the rest of the world form a revealing self-portrait. A manifesto of enchanting bea -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1999
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2000
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
