Driveby Shooting (1994)

With a movie camera mounted in the passenger seat of his car Andy Anderson drove around filming his local neighbourhood of Fort Worth Texas The procession of sunny lawns and quiet houses has a daydreamy innocence however on the soundtrack a narrator recites from the police records of over 600 crimes committed in the area Domestic violence petty theft drug related assault the list of vicious and hapless actions unfolds randomly a woman said her husband punched her in the face when he asked her for ten dollars and she didnt have the money theft two lawnmowers In a powerful counterpoint of sound and image Drive By Shooting creates a two hourlong surveillance film that misses all the action yet evokes a sense of vulnerability on the streets and violence behind closed doors