A Potter’s Field – Zev Aaron (New York, New York)
Documenting the suppressed and repressed death network of New York City's COVID-19 emergency, A Potter's Field uses natural and technological imagery and sound to reveal a taboo: pandemic corpses stored in refrigerated trailers are transported by truck and ferry to Hart Island, a beautiful natural landscape and mass grave run by Department of Correction (employees and) inmates enacting a process that has entombed one million New Yorkers in the largest single, spatially considered, gravesite in the world. Shot amidst a city lockdown, the film immanently creates a memento mori by avoiding the live human form and seizing in invisibility thousands of vir(tu)al pandemic corpses. 2022; 16 min.
- Year2022
- Runtime16 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorZev Aaron
- ScreenwriterZev Aaron
- ProducerZev Aaron
- FilmmakerZev Aaron
- CinematographerZev Aaron
- EditorZev Aaron
A Potter’s Field – Zev Aaron (New York, New York)
Documenting the suppressed and repressed death network of New York City's COVID-19 emergency, A Potter's Field uses natural and technological imagery and sound to reveal a taboo: pandemic corpses stored in refrigerated trailers are transported by truck and ferry to Hart Island, a beautiful natural landscape and mass grave run by Department of Correction (employees and) inmates enacting a process that has entombed one million New Yorkers in the largest single, spatially considered, gravesite in the world. Shot amidst a city lockdown, the film immanently creates a memento mori by avoiding the live human form and seizing in invisibility thousands of vir(tu)al pandemic corpses. 2022; 16 min.
- Year2022
- Runtime16 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorZev Aaron
- ScreenwriterZev Aaron
- ProducerZev Aaron
- FilmmakerZev Aaron
- CinematographerZev Aaron
- EditorZev Aaron