Bill Morrison
United States | 2023 | 30 min
World premiere
Language : English
Subtitle : French

Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police body-cams, Incident recreates the event and its consequences, featuring vain justifications, altercations and attempts to avoid blame. Bill Morrison delivers a chilling political investigation in search of the truth.

In 2018, a man was killed by police on a Chicago street. Bill Morrison - whose impressive filmography, which often makes use of archival footage, prompted the New York Times to describe him as “the eminent poet of lost films” - here revisits and transposes the central idea of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s great classic Rashomon (1951) to a contemporary crime: a fact can be interpreted in different ways depending on who is reporting it. In their search for so-called objective truth, surveillance cameras are also dependent on the story of the person presenting the images. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance, security and police cameras, Incident recreates the event and its consequences, featuring vain justifications, altercations and attempts to flee the scene of the crime. Bill Morrison delivers a chilling political investigation that powerfully conveys the problem of police violence in the United States and its inexorable outcome.
Emilie Bujès

Incident, 2023 
Her Violet Kiss, 2021
Buried News, 2021
The Village Detective: a Song Cycle, 2021
Sunken Films, 2020
The Unchanging Sea, 2018
The Letter, 2018
Dawson City: Frozen Time, 2016
Back to The Soil, 2014
Beyond Zero: 1914-1918, 2014
The Great Flood, 2013
Re: Awakenings, 2013 
Just Ancient Loops, 2012
The Miners' Hymns, 2011
Spark of Being, 2010
Release, 2010 
Who by Water, 2007
The Highwater Trilogy, 2006
Outerborough, 2005
Light is Calling, 2004
The Mesmerist, 2003
Decasia, 2002
The Film of Her, 1996
Sound
Billy Gardner
Editing
Bill Morrison
Production
Bill MorrisonHypnotic PicturesJamie KalvenInvisible Institute
Sales contact
Bill MorrisonHypnotic Picturesbillmorrison65@gmail.com+19174458529

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

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