single-channel video with sound 15 minutes 35 seconds
The Witness

ZACHARY FORMWALT
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Looking at a particular set of images found along with a script on the United States Department of Defense website, The Witness asks who exactly these images are addressing and perhaps more crucially, what their relation to this script is. While trying to determine this relation between the script—a record of the now infamous Comabatant Status Review Tribunals that took place in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba—and the photographs of the space in which this script was performed, the narrator realizes that he too is playing a role in a script that he has not written.

2006