Live moments ago The Death of Michael Brown 982014

Handdrawn animated short reconstructing frame by frame a brief section of mobile phone footage of Michael Brown who was murdered by police in the city of Ferguson Missouri in 2014 Browns body lay on the hot pavement for four hours after being killed the film is an attempt to make some meaning of that time By drawing and redrawing the mobile phone footage time is reinvested into the image as an homage and to add value The frames have been worked over and over causing the paper to tear and to rupture almost resembling burning recalling the violent protests and fires that broke out after the murder as well as historical lynching fires