Incident
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Overview
Incident reconstructs a Chicago police shooting from 2018, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of viewpoints, including surveillance, security, dashboard, and body-worn cameras as a continuous, synchronized split-screen montage.
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Review
The latest work by Bill Morrison, a master of film creation using found footage, amounts to a declaration of a formal transformation in his filmography. For this work, he draws on present-day images rather than material from the past. An actual incident involving a police shooting was captured by closed-circuit cameras on the Chicago streets as well as body cameras worn by officers. The aftermath of the incident was likewise reflected in public camera footage. Using these records, the director creates a work midway between a thriller and a political exposé. It is one of the most shocking films of the year, and one that will not easily be forgotten. (Sung MOON)
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Credit
- DirectorBill MORRISON
- ProducerBill MORRISON, Jamie KALVEN
- ScreenplayBill MORRISON
- Production DesignBill MORRISON
- EditorBill MORRISON
- SoundBilly GARDNER
Film Source
Hypnotic Pictures⎜billmorrison65@gmail.com
Director
Bill MORRISON
Born in Chicago, 1965. He has premiered feature-length documentary films at the New York, Sundance, Telluride and Venice film festivals. He is best known for making Decasia (2002) and Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016). His most recent film, Incident (2023) won the International Documentary Association’s IDFA Best Short Documentary Film Award of 2023.
