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This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Film-Video & Media Studies in the Bellisario College of Communications, The McCourtney Institute for Democracy, and the Department of Political Science.

This experimental documentary explores the archives generated by state violence by focusing on the 2010 State of Emergency in West Kingston, Jamaica. In May of that year, the military and police forces entered Tivoli Gardens and surrounding communities by force in order to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States to stand trial for gun and drug-related charges. This resulted in the deaths of at least 75 civilians. The film features community residents talking about what they experienced during the “incursion,” and naming and memorializing loved ones they lost.