A police raid in 10 minutes that'll wreck your whole day.
Short film about a police raid gone horribly wrong, featuring music by Pharoahe Monch.
Direction
Terence Nance turns a music video into protest cinema.
Sound
Monch's track weaponized as narrative engine.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic framing mirrors suffocating dread.
Director
Terence Nance
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak Occupy and post-Trayvon era, it weaponized the music video format for Black Lives Matter discourse before the hashtag existed.
Gbenga Akinnagbe later played a detective on The Wire — casting him as victim here inverts his authority-coded screen presence.
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