Close the Gap
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Alex Bliss
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
During the 2020 BLM protests, a white protester loses his head trying to corral his fellow demonstrators. A satirical character study of self-righteous allyship cracking under pressure.
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The scouts
Finally, a protest film that points the camera at the loudest guy in the crowd instead of canonizing him. Cringe as political diagnosis — I'm in.
Alex Bliss zooms in on a self-righteous white protester at a 2020 march in real time — a one-location pressure cooker that doesn't let allyship off easy. Sharper than the comps suggest.
Real-time satirical zoom-in on a white protester at a 2020 BLM march, staged as a one-location pressure cooker with live-broadcast diegesis — Alex Bliss going at self-righteous allyship from inside the broadcast is brave material.
Reviews
An immersive cinematography and Fiddyment's hysterical performance.