How Oscar Short Film Contenders Told Stories of Human Psyche, History and Secret Police (Video)
thewrap.comshortlist.Turner’s “Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day” looks back at the history of lynching in America through the ways they’ve been documented on souvenir postcards from 1880 to 1968.Turner described how photographers would take pictures of the lynchings and create postcards of the imagery that people would then send to their friends and family.
She says that while the imagery was “graphic,” she tried to focus viewers’ eyes on the amount of people attending the lynchings and the fact that families were there, rather than the lynching itself, to properly contextualize the point in time.“We’re going beyond the brutality of the body itself, but that is also part of what I want viewers to confront,” she said. “The imagery, in some ways, really speaks for itself, and I wanted viewers to have to reckon and with that, and therefore reckon with our history and hopefully, come to a better understanding about our present as well.”“Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C.
Leyendecker” is another documentary short that reveals the hidden messaging in the advertising work of J.C. Leyendecker, a queer illustrator who was one of the most prominent American artists of the 20th century, but has frequently been left out of history.Director Ryan White talked about how Leyendecker subtly inserted homoerotic imagery into his advertisements that engaged the LGBTQ+ community.
However, White said that, at its core, the film is a “love story.”“It’s somewhat of a tragic love story, in the sense that, just as J.C.
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