Indications of Guilt, pt.1 examines the structures of American police interrogation and their relationship to fictional screen representations of law enforcement. The film asks what it means to be familiar with legal processes through television before experiencing them in real life. Craigie edits together interviews with detectives, false confession experts, footage from TV series, and police training videos, revealing the interplay between fact and fiction in detective work and the subjectivity that constructs ‘truth’. At the intersection of legal, bureaucratic, and scientific structures, interrogation is revealed as a form of worldbuilding where, by making a situation appear real, it can become real, leading to miscarriages of justice.
Indications of Guilt, pt.1 und weitere Arbeiten von Craigie sind als Installation im transmediale studio zusammengeführt:
It is Difficult to Insult a Guilty Person, Video, 7’49” und begleitendes Poster Interrogation Training Certificate, gerahmt Click, Click, looped Sound (2021)
Maud Craigie arbeitet mit Bewegtbild, Performance und Installation. In ihren Arbeiten kombiniert sie inszenierte und dokumentarische Techniken, um die Bedeutung fiktionaler Erzählstrukturen auf das alltägliche Leben zu erforschen. Craigies Arbeitsweisen umfassen die Meisner-Instinktschauspieltechnik und eine Ausbildung in psychologischen Polizeiverhörmethoden.
