Protest Photography
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by John Connor Hammond
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Randall Otis offers a helpful service for activists who missed the march: stage the photo afterward. A mock-instructional sketch about manufacturing protest cred for the gram.
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The scouts
Performative allyship gets its own QVC pitch. The joke shouldn't sustain three minutes — but Otis sells it like he believes every word.
Randall Otis's satirical persona work is reliable — a sketch this on-the-nose lives or dies on delivery, but his hit rate is high.
A straight-faced infomercial for retroactively staging your protest photo after the march — the conceit is one-and-done but the format-commitment is the whole sketch.
Reviews
Missed your opportunity to stand up for justice? No worries! Randall Otis has got you covered with Protest Photography.