Film 'Blue Wall' at Newark Library Wednesday!

‘Blue Wall:A Conspiracy Against Citizens’

A Film By Raymond Spencer

Spotlighted Wednesday at the Newark Library

by Zayid Muhammad

He is an emerging master of the Short Film. He has already received critical acclaim for his short 'What Kind Of A Man' film, released in 2015.

Now Raymond Spencer, straight outta Jersey, comes again with his gritty 'A Blue Wall: A Conspiracy Against Citizens'...

It will be spotlighted in the Second Annual ‘Poets And Artists Against Police Brutality’ on Wednesday evening, May 29^th, hosted by Newark Communities for Accountable Policing (NCAP) at the Newark Public Library’s Centennial Hall at 6pm.

Incredibly, the film comes on the heels of a Carteret Police officer, with an alarming history of using force, being exonerated for badly beating an unarmed teen in an arrest captured partially on videotape.

Spencer will be joined by poets, James Ellerbe, Uninvited and Euphony, who will also perform.

In this short, with horror tech screetching Cinematography, Spencer captures an honest cop tragically killing an unarmed man overreacting to movement. Satirically wearing the badge number 666, he is turned into a dishonest cop by his superior officers as they employ the cover up that often comes with these kinds of incidents...

Done in part in the haunting and dilapidated, now closed down old Essex County Jail, against the background of ‘The Divided States of America,’ in less than 20 minutes, the film captures how the legal and institutionalization of Police Coverups are done...

Timely! Creatively revealing!...

It is creatively correct for Spencer to give the issue, a bitterly persistent and divisive one for sure, a horror film genre treatment, because for its victims, for their families, and for Black and Brown communities all over this country traumatized by this abuse over and over again, it is an ongoing horror story...More hauntingly, it is one with no end in sight!

If you love a flick daring to raise real questions and daring to be different, you will appreciate ‘Blue Wall’ in these 'Divided States of America'...