Field of Vision - Speaking Is Difficult: Connecting 911 calls to mass shootings in America

Damn, this is a powerful video. Field Of Vision is a short film made by AJ Schnack that takes you directly to the location of several real mass shootings in America over the last 5 years and simultaneously plays the audio recording of the 911 calls over present-day videos of the locations.

Mass shootings in America have become a sad and commonplace event in the last few years but it's often easy to forget the tragedies that have taken place when we are only hearing about them on the news. The news cycle is made to relentlessly talk about these situations until the next big crime occurs, and when it does, these shootings and their aftermath get pushed out of the collective American psyche. This film brings us back to these locations and reminds us that these terrible situations are ongoing -- communities, families, and people recovering for much longer than these events stay in the news cycle.

Director AJ Schnack did an interview on The Intercept here.

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