After publishing his book The Torture Letters in January of 2020, Laurence Ralph decided to adapt it into an animated short—reckoning in both cases with systemic racism in America, in hopes that society at large will address it, and take meaningful action to stop the violence it perpetuates.Based on over a decade of research, both projects are structured as a series of open letters to victims of police violence, and to those who have spoken out against it.
Drawing attention to a police torture scandal in Chicago that unfolded over the course of three decades, they use this history as a foundation, to open up a discussion around tragedies that continue to play out.For first-time filmmaker Ralph—who serves as a Professor of Anthropology at
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