Target: Philadelphia (2019)

• 75%
• 2019
• Documentary
• Sean Slater

Through the prism of the 1985 MOVE bombing by Philadelphia police, in which cops killed five black children, the rise of police militarization is explored within the parallel context of black nationalism. The Target series aims to shed light on areas of structural inequality, specifically as it pertains to the African American experience. The reason for focusing on the African American experience exclusively, to "Target" these individual cities and events, is to clarify and contrast the inherent differences between what is held as the collective American immigrant perception of history with African American history, an inescapably alternative perspective on our nation as a whole that fundamentally questions the veracity of American exceptionalism.