2016 · animation · documentary
Tower (2016)
Directed by Keith Maitland1h 22m2016
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
Our read: Tower (2016) (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive animation · documentary entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme animation / documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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