Ernest Larsen
2021Womb with a View
Sherry Millner
Sherry Millner, Ernest Larsen
The nine months of the filmmaker's pregnancy constructed as a serio-comic fractured nine-chapter narrative, from conception to birth, emphasizing the constantly changing transitional state of embodiment of pregnancy.
Womb with a View
Out of the Mouth of Babes
Sherry Millner, Ernest Larsen
This video proposes an ironic metaphor to grasp the follies of U.S. government action and inaction in Central America. The process of learning U.S. policy is similar to the process of a young child acquiring the principles of language. These dual senses of literacy operate on several levels, situating a child’s consciousness within the contradictions of history comments on the illusory innocence of childhood, and the unexamined, but real, guilt of the U.S. government, its supporters and clients.
Out of the Mouth of Babes
41 Shots
Sherry Millner, Ernest Larsen
On February 4, 1999, 19 of the 41 shots fired in 10 seconds by 4 NYPD Street Crimes Unit cops hit Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo as he stood in the vestibule of the building where he lived in the Bronx…. This video essay seizes on the grotesque factual precision of this numerical data, proceeding with an intense contemplation of how police violence is produced and then addressed by other forces on the city streets.
41 Shots
