US

1987

19 min

Finished

An I for an I

Directing: Lawrence Andrews

Synopsis

Violence committed against Black Americans is not a phenomenon in itself but is rather linked to a number of pathologies that are evident on a global scale, be it environmental destruction, social inequality, or economic injustice. This video bricolage radically translates audio tracks, written texts, and both “stolen” and variously modified images – thus, presenting a physical and emotional experience from the position of a victim subject to brute force, together with the deliberate eradication of media coverage content. The depiction of violence is becoming an inseparable and gloomy recurring motif of our tragic existence on this planet.