Incident
How Police React When a Killing Is Caught on Tape
Directed by Bill Morrison
Produced by Hypnotic Pictures, Invisible Institute
A stark, investigative documentary that reconstructs a fatal police killing through fragmented surveillance footage, interrogating institutional evasion and the search for accountability.
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.
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