"I Started to Think of the Film as a Kind of Ethnography of Fear and Violence In and Around Schools in America": Todd Chandler on His Gun Violence Doc Bulletproof

There’s a truly startling sequence beginning about a half hour into Todd Chandler’s unsettling, formally assured documentary on school violence, Bulletproof. Until this point Chandler, with cool, distanced precision, depicts the “capitalist spectacle” that has grown around the issue of violence in schools. Active shooter drills, teachers given firearms training, a first-generation immigrant starting a business producing Kevlar hoodies, and a Las Vegas trade show where high-tech surveilla...