Incident

  • Bill Morrison

Chicago, July 14, 2018: Harith Snoop Augustus is on his way home from work and is shot dead by the police. It is 17:30. Incident is an oppressive reconstruction of the event and its immediate aftermath. A shocking montage of footage from surveillance cameras, dashcams and police bodycams.

DIRECTOR

  • Bill Morrison

    Bill Morrison has been working with archive material for over thirty years. He composes new stories with historical testimonial value from old film documents and gives space and visibility to people who are otherwise pushed to the sidelines. He works against forgetting in the knowledge that memories are fragile. Incident has received several awards and is a radical continuation of Morrison's long-standing work against forgetting. He lives in New York.

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