“It’s Quite High Octane, Intense Stuff”: Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Day Of Rage’ Documents Exactly How January 6 Insurrection Unfolded
12.01.2022 - 19:43
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In the year and six days since the violent insurrection in the nation’s capital, former President Trump and his Republican allies have consistently attempted to downplay the attack on the citadel of democracy.
A “normal tourist visit” is how Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia has characterized aspects of the frenzied assault. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has denied the attack amounted to an armed revolt and said most of those who breached the U.S. Capitol weren’t violent and “stayed within the roped lines in the Rotunda.”
But there’s a problem with this attempted spin: video evidence.
No one has done as much to document what occurred on January 6, 2021 as the Visual Investigations team at the New York Times, which produced the short documentary Day of Rage. It is based on meticulous analysis of thousands of videos shot by rioters themselves, along with police body cam footage, law enforcement radio traffic, and video from Capitol security cameras. The film, co-directed and produced by Malachy Browne and David Botti, and produced by Haley Willis, has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards and viewed more than 8 million times.
“I think there’s a very great value in simply showing what happened, just minute by minute, moment by moment,” Botti tells Deadline. “We added a layer of analysis onto it and the point of the analysis was mainly to help guide people through the film and give them situational awareness and a sense of time passing. But we really just wanted to let the footage speak for itself.”
“Can we just take a minute to appreciate how well this video was made,” wrote one viewer on YouTube. That comment alone has attracted 7.6 thousand “likes.”
“What we wanted to do is show how [the assault] happened
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