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two distant strangers

2021

Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short science-fiction drama film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. Nominated for the 2021 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, the film examines the deaths of black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.

In New York, black graphic designer Carter James tries to get home to his dog, Jeter, the morning after a first date, only to find himself trapped in a time loop in which he is repeatedly confronted in the street by a white NYPD officer, Officer Merk. Merk wonders whether Carter is smoking a joint and wants to search his bag. Each encounter ends with Carter being killed by the police, then waking up in the bed of his date, Perri. Carter's first death resembles the killing of Eric Garner ("I can't breathe") in 2014 and George Floyd in May 2020. (Travon Free wrote the script in July 2020.) In one version of the loop, riot police burst into Carter's date's apartment, mistaking it for a different apartment because the door number is hanging upside down, and shoot him there.

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