Why This Film

HERE, BULLET the film was created as an emotional journey of an “every-person”, thrust into that surreal moment of “death by gun”: a cinematic reaction to a moment we all fear and oddly, all share. While Brian Turner’s poem Here, Bullet was written in 2005 as a personal, emotional reaction and outlet to the experiences Brian had as a soldier in the Iraq War, the film HERE, BULLET broadens the original idea of the poem and song cycle and transforms the scene to an “ordinary” man out for a walk in the seeming serenity of an idyllic forest. Expanding on Kurt Erickson’s original song set, HERE, BULLET addresses important social issues that affect us all: armed violence, PTSD, and the general fear and anxiety these matters bring on a daily basis. In our modern day normality, we not only collectively feel the pain and horror of a community which goes through some sort of mass shooting, suicide, or gun violence; but we also assume it can and will happen to us. HERE, BULLET captures that exact moment, the millisecond we all dread, and slows it down just enough to let us all contemplate, converse with, curse at, and ultimately capitulate to the will of this inanimate instrument of death.