Films 2023
Revolver
- Runtime:
- 17 min.
- Year of Production:
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- Director:
- Cast:
- Angela Bates
- Production Company:
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum Expanded
- Berlinale Category:
- Short Film
Revolver is an archive of pareidolia, a situation in which someone sees a pattern or an image of something that does not exist, narrated by a descendant of Exodusters, Black people from the southern United States who fled violence and inequities following the American Civil War of 1861–65. The city of Nicodemus in Kansas was deemed a refuge for Exodusters. Two contradicting narratives about this city are difficult to hold at once: the lure of a potential utopia while also being exiled in one’s own land. Guided by memory, history, and rumour of a fabled Black utopia, Revolver pairs abstraction and perceptual inquiry with psychic conjuring. Sonic transitions forge this experimental documentary, a perpetual chronicle of witnessing and wayfinding.
FILMOGRAFIE Crystal Z Campbell (selection)
Revolver