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Another Other

Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson
USA
9'

A Black police officer and a university president are interrogated by multiple white state officials after their failures to sufficiently comply with their respective institutions’ plans. An experiment in image, sound, and subtitle, ANOTHER OTHER identifies these figures as collaborators with racist systems, even as those systems betray them.

In only 9 minutes, ANOTHER OTHER enacts multiple radical breaks on cinematic language and uses them to reflect the disturbing fine line that transforms a victim into (their own) tormentor. Taking an interrogation sequence from Philip Kaufman’s 1993 thriller Rising Sun, but rendering it on an out of sync strip of film (a gesture that highlights cinematic materiality, but also manipulation, literally as much as figuratively), filmmaker Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson subverts the scene’s original meaning through sound and subtitles, in a tribute to John Carpenter and James Baldwin. The result is one of the most striking films to date about the brutal repression of student protests for Palestine – a true horror film. (Flavia Dima)

Saturday, September 27, 18:00

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Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson

Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson is a Boston-based writer and educator with a filmic and sculptural practice. Her work has appeared in Boston Art Review, Boston Ujima Press, Visions du Réel Film Festival, and Documenta Madrid Film Festival. She is currently studying the theological dimensions of Black literature and film at Harvard Divinity School.

  • Technical sheet
  • WRITER: Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson
  • PRODUCER: Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson
  • SOUND: Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson, Gustavo Borges
  • KEY CAST: Wesley Snipes as "Lieutenant Webster Smith"; Claudine Gay as Herself

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