Come Out
Narcisa Hirsch AR, 1970, 12', 35 mm
Come Out was composed as part of a benefit, presented at Town Hall in April 1966, for the re-trial with lawyers of their own choosing, of the six boys arrested for murder during the Harlem riots of 1964. The voice is that of Daniel Hamm, then nineteen, describing a beating he took in the Harlem 28th precinct. The police were about to take the boys out to be “cleaned up” and were only taking those that were visibly bleeding. Since Hamm had no actual open bleeding, he proceeded to squeeze open a bruise on his leg so that he could be taken to hospital: “I had to, like open the bruise up and let some of the bruise blood come out to show them”.
Sun 28/9 Kino SC 16:00
