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A normal day for out-of-work actor Jean-Michel turns upside down when a confrontation with a racist police officer leaves the cop dead and Jean-Michel on the run. As Jean-Michel tries to convince street photographer Audrey to flee the city with him, he finds himself at the center of a nationwide reckoning with racial injustice. Set at the height of the George Floyd protests against the surreal backdrop of the early pandemic, Out of Breath confronts the ambiguous relationship between individual responsibility and structural oppression today
With a light touch and a dry wit, Out of Breath is a tonally perfect meditation on race and inequality.
Out of Breath The Movie- A New Feature Film By Christian Carroll
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Director’s Statement
In May 2020, along with the rest of the world, I watched in horror as George Floyd was murdered. In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, I spent June and July marching through the streets of NYC. I have been to many protests throughout my life, but the ones last summer were truly cathartic, perhaps in part because most of us were coming out of months of lockdown in small apartments. I decided I wanted to capture this unique and surreal moment in NYC in a film.
