DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH WEBB

Artificial Horizon chronicles the complex and layered racial histories of a tract of former plantation land in eastern Alabama, an origin point for the filmmaker’s family members who continue to live on both sides of—and sometimes crossing—the “color line”. During westward settler colonial expansion and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in the mid 19th century, the government used trees as reference points to create property boundaries, but root networks below ground continue to defy these borders, providing a liberatory model for how our bodies might also subvert similar and related structures of power and control.

4K & 16mm / United States

Supported by: The Ford Foundation JustFilms, Graham Foundation, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies