Event info

Keith Maitland
USA 2016 / 96 min

The main building of the University of Texas is in downtown Austin. It‘s a big tower and an important landmark for the city. From the top of the tower you have a great view over the campus – and that‘s where a 25 year old shooter locked himself up in August 1st 1966, with rifles and sawed-off shotguns, and rained fire over the campus. He murdered a total of 17 people and injured 31 before he was shot down by a police officer. We usually only notice the first number, but this film is about the second number. It’s about those who survived.

The film is mostly done in rotoscope animation, based on interviews with those who survived. The film lasts as long as the shooting itself, which lasted more than an hour and a half before the shooter was shot dead – and all this time downtown Austin was a death-trap.

The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won three major awards, including Best Documentary Feature.

Screenings:
February 26th, at 13:00
March 1st, at 20:00
March 4th, at 22:15