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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.


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.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    17 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Note
    English closed captions available; Descriptive Audio version of the film is available by request
  • Producer
    Sarah Friedland, Gabe C. Elder
  • Filmmaker
    Sarah Friedland
  • Cast
    Hayward Leach
  • Cinematographer
    Gabe C. Elder
  • Editor
    Sarah Friedland
  • Production Design
    Stephanie Osin Cohen
  • Sound Design
    Assaf Gidron