Empty Metal
2021
Computer Files, Websites
Set in the abusive police state of the contemporary United States, EMPTY METAL follows five groups of characters, each emblematic of a different extreme political ideology, as they attempt insurrection against the status quo: a queer noise band is coerced into a dangerous assassination plot by a family of militant Native Americans who are aided by a Rastafarian computer hacker who is old friends with a Buddhist hermit whose son is a local militia leader. This tangled web of marginalized voices is as diverse and contradictory as the nation that spun it, but there is a common thread: all the characters teeter on the dull knife blade that is contemporary American politics, but they refuse to fall right or left. Instead, they lash out from the soul, and under the radar, in an attempt to achieve what their mainstream predecessors have yet to accomplish. And all the while, the drones are watching...
Main title:
Author:
Khalil, Adam, film directorSweitzer, Bayley, film directorEsco, Alex, actorSley Julian, Austin, actorLaGuerre, Irma, actorLaGuerre, Mazikeen, actorRichardson, Sam, actorFactory 25 (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Factory 25, 2019.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Factory 25 in 2019.In English
Performers:
Alex Esco, Austin Sley Julian, Irma LaGuerre, Mazikeen LaGuerre, Sam Richardson
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
430506
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/11267577/external-image - Cover Image