Eye for an Eye | Animation short film (2016)

★ Student Academy Award finalist (Foreign Animation, 2016); Annecy Festival selection; multiple festival wins

Rotoscoped over an actual interview, Frederick Baer, more than a decade into a death sentence at Indiana State Prison, talks plainly about waiting for his execution. The animation doesn't editorialize; it just holds the frame on one man's own account of his crime and his remaining time.

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