Make a Distinction
16mm film transferred to digital video, color, sound, 62 min
Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney, 2021

A family rests in the shade of a C-47 warcraft. An army installation contains the last remnants of an endangered grassland ecology. Young filmmakers hone their skills making cop shows on Chicago streets.

A debut hybrid non-fiction feature, Make a Distinction maps unseen forces of US imperialism through ostensibly disconnected aspects of daily life. If you can’t name the enemy do you become it?

Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney are Chicago-based anti-imperialist artists working primarily in film, video, live broadcast, and installation. Their works have screened and exhibited at venues including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the American Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, UnionDocs, and Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/589095778