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One sweltering August day in 1966, a lone sniper on top of the University of Texas Tower began a ninety-six-minute reign of terror that left sixteen dead and three dozen wounded. Drawing on extensive interviews with witnesses and survivors, Tower—winner of deadCenter Film Festival’s Best Documentary Award—is both a riveting, moment-by-moment account of one of the deadliest mass-shootings in American history, and a moving, stunningly relevant testament to the human capacity for courage and generosity in the face of terror and tragedy. Mixing archival footage and digital Rotoscopic animation—a technique popularized by Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006)—Maitland’s ingenious, multi-layered film imbues fifty-year-old events with a palpable sense of urgency and presence, while capturing the vibrant, dreamlike texture of memory.
Director Keith Maitland 2016 USA 96 minutes NR DCP