Power
Yance Ford / United States / 2024 / International Premiere / 85 min
A sharp and thought-provoking essay on power, race and class. Yance Ford's analysis of the dark history of policing in the US is a highly topical and ever relevant deep dive into one of society's institutions.
How did the police come to be? Who is it for? And where is policing going? The questions are as fundamental as the answers prove to be eye-opening in Yance Ford’s long-awaited film about the deep and dark origin story of the American police forces. But more than anything else, ‘Power’ is a thought-provoking and timely film about power – and how that power is wielded. Ford clearly and accurately argues how race, class and the fear of both have driven the development of policing into the enormous complex that it is today in American society. But it is also a system that has remained largely unquestioned since its inception. Yance Ford does, and with thought-provoking answers from some of the country’s sharpest intellectual voices, ‘Power’ is a film that will make waves for a long time.