A meditation on the image and the bullet. Entrance Wounds (2023) considers the modern challenge of trying to unsee an image. The film sifts through moments of the everyday, imagining a world where afterimages of disaster drift near transparency over the present
“Entrance Wounds conveys a global freeze, a narrative trapped in ice, as we waver between horror and numbness. It generates a feeling of logic suspended, as tragedy ceases to register as an event. Grief is amoebic. It fills the space around us like a deadly gas.” - Michael Sicinski
“When the cause of trauma can only be overcome through an excruciating and exhaustive investigation. Calum Walter makes a penetrating work about images and bullets, especially poignant within the context of a country with a morbid fascination with firearms.” - Margarida Moz, Indielisboa
“The violent last gasps of an empire in decline. This film is a diaristic investigation of an over-mediated country proliferated with firearms and full of extremes and divisiveness. From advertising to the news, images reinforce the inescapable trauma of everyday life in the USA. But sometimes, if you want to forget something horrifying, you must focus on every single detail of it. Every. Single. Detail.” – Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss, IFFR
Screenings:
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Slamdance (Honorable Mention - Best Experimental Short)
Indielisboa
Syncro Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dokufest, Prizren, Kosovo
San Diego Underground
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Prismatic Ground
Chicago Underground Film Festival