Bill Morrison Through a montage of surveillance and police body-worn camera footage, a reconstruction of a deadly shooting by a Chicago police officer becomes an investigation into how a narrative begins to take shape in the aftermath. Incident is both a deconstruction and a reconstitution of a specific event that transpires over 20 minutes in real time, using multiple synchronized viewpoints. One of the foundational fault lines on which America was built is exposed once again: the inability to reconcile the right to bear arms with the fear of others having those same rights. The same paradox is also applied to the police camera here – if it doesn’t protect you, it is a potentially damaging witness in another’s hands. I was inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1951), in which one event is interpreted in several ways, depending on who is telling the story. I thought about how this could still be applied to a modern-day crime story with the use of surveillance footage, which seeks to find an objective truth, but is still beholden to the narrative of whoever presents the footage. Bill Morrison