Stranger With a Camera

More than 30 years after the incident, Elizabeth Barret uses her camera to explore a killing that occurred in rural Kentucky. In 1967 a Canadian documentarian, Hugh O’Connor, was shot and killed by an Appalachian landowner who said O’Connor was trespassing on his land. Barret, who grew up in the area and is a member of the pioneering regional media arts center Appalshop, is in a unique position to understand both sides of the debate over the justification of this death. (Director Elizabeth Barret will be present following the screening for a Q&A. See this week’s Screens section for an interview with the director.) The Texas Documentary Tour is co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society, the UT Department of RTF, The Austin Chronicle, KLRU-TV, and SXSW Film.