The Protocol of Peace

Overview

A rigorous, 43-minute fine art conceptual narrative feature film that investigates the moral failures and psychological costs of the protocols we create to manage the suppression of truth and the maintenance of silence. Structured as interwoven monologues delivered over poetic and restrained found footage, the film’s powerful plot follows one narrator's journey from a childhood lie to an adult act of conscience, revealing the hidden machinery of institutional violence. By centering on the concept of the "unlisted death"—those lives and truths erased by the cold machinery of state and social protocol—the film navigates the dark shadow of American power and the refusal to offer a comfortable or hopeful resolution.