Empty Metal

Streaming video - 2019

Set in the abusive police state of the contemporary United States, EMPTY METAL follows five groups of characters, each emblematic of a different extreme political ideology, as they attempt insurrection against the status quo: a queer noise band is coerced into a dangerous assassination plot by a family of militant Native Americans who are aided by a Rastafarian computer hacker who is old friends with a Buddhist hermit whose son is a local militia leader. This tangled web of marginalized voices is as diverse and contradictory as the nation that spun it, but there is a common thread: all the characters teeter on the dull knife blade that is contemporary American politics, but they refuse to fall right or left. Instead, they lash out from the ...soul, and under the radar, in an attempt to achieve what their mainstream predecessors have yet to accomplish. And all the while, the drones are watching...

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Factory 25 2019.
2021.
Language
English
Other Authors
Adam Khalil (film director), Bayley Sweitzer (actor), Alex Esco, Austin Sley Julian, Irma LaGuerre, Mazikeen LaGuerre, Sam Richardson
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).