Incident reconstructs a Chicago police shooting from 2018, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of viewpoints, including surveillance, security, dashboard, and body-worn cameras as a continuous, synchronised split-screen montage.
Content warning: graphic violence
Bill Morrison has premiered feature-length documentary films at the New York, Sundance, Telluride and Venice film festivals. He is best known for making the feature-length films Decasia (2002) and Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016). His most recent film, Incident (2023) won the International Documentary Association’s IDA Best Short Documentary Film Award of 2023 and the Best Documentary Award at the 2024 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
Incident (2023), Her Violet Kiss (2021), Buried News (2021), The Village Detective: a song cycle (2021), Sunken Films / (2020), The Unchanging Sea / (2018), The Letter (2018), Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), Back to the Soil (2014), Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014), The Great Flood (2013), Re: Awakenings (2013), Just Ancient Loops (2012), The Miners’ Hymns (2011), Spark of Being (2010), Release (2010), Who By Water (2007), The Highwater Trilogy (2006), Outerborough (2005), Light Is Calling (2004), The Mesmerist (2003), Decasia (2002), The Film of Her (1996)
