Wesley Snipes and former Harvard president Claudine Gay star in this cleverly juxtaposed meeting of Black American figures interrogated by white state officials.

Layering audio from the 2023 investigation of Harvard’s first Black president over looped footage of Wesley Snipes in the 1993 Hollywood thriller Rising Sun, filmmaker Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson’s subversive experiment in sound and image – awarded the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at Visions du Réel – gets inside the weaponisation of language, the degradation of Black authority, and the insidious collusion between subject and institution.