Utilizing groundbreaking experimental styles, this group of documentaries finds new methods to tell true stories, document places, discuss relationships, and examine socio-political realities. Ranging widely in content and theme, this program combines stories of an experimental musician, a wildlife rehabilitation center, school safety drills, and many others. This group of filmmakers wields their cameras fearlessly, unafraid to define and build unconventional documentary techniques.
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Total Run Time: 82 minutes
This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Programmed by Guest Festival Shorts Programmer, Emily Eddy.
Content Considerations: Strong language, implied sexual situations, sexual violence, harassment, depictions of violence, implied violence.
Drills is a film about the choreography of preparing for the future. A hybrid documentary and experimental dance film reimagining the form of the Cold War-era, US government-produced social guidance film, Drills asks what futures we are preparing for through the exercises embodying present anxieties. Weaving in between multiple forms of choreography and documentation, Drills restages lockdown and active shooter drills, frames corporate and tech start-up office meditation, and reperforms Boy Scout drills from the 1917 Boy Scout manual.
- Year2020
- Runtime17 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- NoteEnglish closed captions available; Descriptive Audio version of the film is available by request
- ProducerSarah Friedland, Gabe C. Elder
- FilmmakerSarah Friedland
- CastHayward Leach
- CinematographerGabe C. Elder
- EditorSarah Friedland
- Production DesignStephanie Osin Cohen
- Sound DesignAssaf Gidron
Utilizing groundbreaking experimental styles, this group of documentaries finds new methods to tell true stories, document places, discuss relationships, and examine socio-political realities. Ranging widely in content and theme, this program combines stories of an experimental musician, a wildlife rehabilitation center, school safety drills, and many others. This group of filmmakers wields their cameras fearlessly, unafraid to define and build unconventional documentary techniques.
Have an All Access Pass? Unlock your on-demand screening of this film here!
Total Run Time: 82 minutes
This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Programmed by Guest Festival Shorts Programmer, Emily Eddy.
Content Considerations: Strong language, implied sexual situations, sexual violence, harassment, depictions of violence, implied violence.
Drills is a film about the choreography of preparing for the future. A hybrid documentary and experimental dance film reimagining the form of the Cold War-era, US government-produced social guidance film, Drills asks what futures we are preparing for through the exercises embodying present anxieties. Weaving in between multiple forms of choreography and documentation, Drills restages lockdown and active shooter drills, frames corporate and tech start-up office meditation, and reperforms Boy Scout drills from the 1917 Boy Scout manual.
- Year2020
- Runtime17 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- NoteEnglish closed captions available; Descriptive Audio version of the film is available by request
- ProducerSarah Friedland, Gabe C. Elder
- FilmmakerSarah Friedland
- CastHayward Leach
- CinematographerGabe C. Elder
- EditorSarah Friedland
- Production DesignStephanie Osin Cohen
- Sound DesignAssaf Gidron