2024-05-24
38 分钟Director Yance Ford discusses his new film, Power, with fellow Director Kristi Jacobson in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, he discusses the endeavor of going through hundreds of years of archival material, how he wanted to challenge the notion of traditional experts in a documentary by approaching people from police-impacted communities, and the post production journey that led him to include his narration in the documentary. The film investigates the American policing system, which has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Driven to contain threats to social order, now it can be described by one word: Power.
So that moment happened really organically, and we let it play out in real time in the movie, the same way it played out in real life.
When she said that most of what the police do is legal, I was stopped in my tracks.
And when you hear me say, um, we didn't add any more time to that pause, that literally was the first thing that came out of my mouth after she said that.
And at that moment, we also let, like, we let the curtain of the facade of the interview fall, right?
So she's fixing her lipstick, she's drinking water.
She looks uncomfortable.
She's looking at me.
Look at her trying to figure this out.
And, you know, when I get to this thing, it's the first thing that came to mind.
Like, I want to ask about this week, because who are you talking about?
Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the director's Guild of America.
In this episode, a critical look at the american police system is undertaken in director Yancey Ford's documentary power.
Screened as part of the DGA's documentary series, the film investigates the american policing system, which has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years.
Driven to contain threats to social order, it can now be described by one power.
In addition to power, Fords other directorial credits include the documentary features strong island and the color of care, episodes of the television documentary series trial by media and work in progress, and episodes of the documentary miniseries Pride and the Me you can't see.
Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Ford spoke with director Christy Jacobson about filming power.
Listen on for their conversation.
I would just like to.
I was gonna say it's hard to, like, applaud at the end of a film like this.
I don't know if maybe we should just take some breaths together.