Still Life

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

Joseph Lee Anderson

Garrett (segment "It’s All Right, It’s OK")

Hannah Elder

Hannah (segment "Hydrangea")

David Henry Gerson

David (segment "Hydrangea")

Jim Cummings

Jim (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

Casey Thomas Brown

Jordan (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")