This animation is a visual representation of an excerpt from prisoner Chris McBride’s letter to the newspaper Indy Week dated on July 4th, 2012. This piece attempts to visually communicate, in less than 2 minutes, the amount of time a prisoner spends in very small confinement, the minuscule amount of time spent outside the cell and the psychological impact this can have. The idea of illustrating written content with animations and (sometimes interactive) graphics, let’s call it visual journalism, interests me, and is gaining in popularity, for example in the online edition of the New York Times. Solitary Confinement tries to convey not just the content, but also the mood of the article – or, more specifically, the letter.
EXHIBITS/FILM SCREENINGS
- Cat Fly Indie Film Fest, Ashville, NC. May 2024
- Make Art Not War, Los Angeles, California, USA. November 2021
- Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN, USA. August 2020
- Tarheel Shorties Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, USA. May 2020
- Ethnograpfilm Paris, France. April 2020
- International Film & Video Festival “Cathartsis”, Moscow. Semi-finalist
- Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival, Gaza
- Carrboro Film Festival, Carrboro, NC, USA. November 2019
- North Dakota Film Festival, Fargo, ND, USA. November 2019
- Eden Studios International Film Festival. Sacramento, CA. July 2019
- La Femme International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA. October 2019
- Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival, Belfast, UK. October 2019
- Nordic Star Festival. October 2019
- Global Peace Film Festival, Florida, USA. September 2019
- Five Continents International Film Festival, Venezuela. (best experimental short film)
- Eden Studios International Film Festival. Sacramento, CA. July 2019
- Short to the Point Film Festival. June 2019
- Low to No Int’l Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV
- Social Political Short Film Festival, Missoula, MT. June 2019
- Magmart video under volcano, X Editio
- London X4 Seasonal Short Film Festival, London, UK. May 2019
- Free Speech TV. 2016
- 12 Month Film Festival. (2nd winner)
- Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales UK
- UNSPOKEN Human Rights Film Festival, Utica, NY
- Athens International Film + Video Festival. Athens, OH
- Reel Teal Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
- Carolina Film & Video Festival, Greensboro, NC
- In Practice Exhibit. Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC
