true believers

2018
Video, sound
7 minutes, 1 seconds

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Believe me. Over 17 seasons of Law & Order: SVU, the words are whispered, yelled, ordered, or cried by victims, criminals, witnesses, experts, and detectives alike. But who do we believe and why? Examining the construction of authority and the performance of believability, True Believers collects these decontextualized moments into a nearly complete archive that asks us to judge for ourselves.