10 minutes, HD video, 2024

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

ARTWORKS Best Film Award, Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, Greek Film Archive
Grand Prix Documentary Short Award, 69th Cork International Film Festival
Experimental Competition Award 2024, Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival
Grand Prix, ^20TH 25FPS International Experimental Film Festival Zagreb
Critics Jury Award, ^20TH 25FPS International Experimental Film Festival Zagreb
Mention Spéciale du Jury, 2024 Festival Film Villa Medici: Academie de France a Rome
Nomination European Film Awards 2025
Best Short Film Award, 2025 Movies That Matter, Den Hague
Best Documentary Award, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2025

Pennell does something truly remarkable in her essay: in the midst of the world’s first livestreamed genocide and its relentless flow of imagery, she creates space for a minute analysis focused on detail. Best video essays of 2024, BFI Sight and Sound, December 2024, Flavia Dima.