Blot

Zachary Tyler Vickers

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Zachary Tyler Vickers Director

Reflecting a stain on American history and a literal stain through a particular process of making, “Blot” is an animated, experimental documentary as momento mori re: the events at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Using the “ink blot” technique to create abstract Rorschach prints with watercolor over Xeroxed periodical headlines and images, “Blot” seeks to both remind viewers of the fragility of democracy, divisive political tension through the folded paper and the subsequent bifurcating interpretation of how we “see” the event in a “post-truth” America. Watercolor on Xeroxed newsprint, with audio of fireworks from July 4, 2024 and police audio in Washington D.C. from January 6, 2021.

Zachary Tyler Vickers is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and animator. He is the author of the short story collection Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! His fiction has won numerous awards, like the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, and has appeared in many prominent journals, including The Saturday Evening Post. His screenwriting won Grand Prize at the Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, and has garnered recognition from organizations like the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His animation has screened at international film festivals, and explores a range of media, genre, and historical techniques. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Temple University's Film and Media Studies program.