2017 | United States | Experimental

Men Who Swallow Themselves in Mirrors

  • English - 9 mins
  • Director | Sable Elyse Smith
  • Writer | Sable Elyse Smith
  • Producer | Sable Elyse Smith

STATUS: Released

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"In this eight-minute video work, we are given nonnarrative footage sutured together to form a fragmented, hallucinatory sensation. Storefronts zoom by as captured in grainy footage out of the passenger seat of a car, two unseen men undergo tactical training that involves shooting ice with handguns, and kaleidoscopic images of cops swirl in red and blue hues. The entire work migrates between a Black conceptualist dérive and an exposé on the mundane ways that violence meets the affective realms of everyday Black life."

Mass Incarceration Prison System Trauma Social Commentary Found Footage Art Film Experimental Violence Memoir Emotional Realities
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