Presented in partnership with Queensland Film Festival, Memory Jackets presents three films about terror forensics, to examine how both media and society are steeped in voyeuristic tendencies and narrative bias. They will be introduced by Suzannah Fay-Ramirez of the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. Her criminology and sociology research is underscored by questions of race and ethnic stratification, and how perceptions of crime influence individual actions.

Watching the Detectives | Chris Kennedy 2017 | 36 minutes
After the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013, amateur detectives took to internet chat rooms to try to find the culprits. Users on Reddit, 4chan, and other gathering spots pored over photographs uploaded to the sites for any detail that might point to the guilt of potential suspects. Using texts and jpegs culled from these investigations, Watching the Detectives narrates the process of crowd-sourcing culpability.

12 Explosions | Johann Lurf 2008 | 6 minutes
Johann Lurf sets off fireworks in the dark streets of Vienna. Shots of dimly lit footpaths, deserted parking lots, a pedestrian bridge, weigh heavy with anticipation, followed by explosions, as our expectations are confirmed one by one. 12 Explosions is a study of perception, movement, light, and sound. Courtesy Sixpackfilm.

Rubber Coated Steel | Lawrence Abu Hamdan 2016 | 22 minutes
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a forensic audio analyst and artist. In 2014, he was asked to analyse audio recordings of the shots that killed Nadeem Nawara and Mohamed Abu Daher in the West Bank. His investigation proved that they were shot by real bullets, not rubber ones. It became the centre of a murder investigation that went through the military courts and international news networks to the US Congress, where it was used to argue that Israel had breached the US–Israeli arms agreement. A year later, the artist held his own tribunal for these killing sounds in this video Rubber Coated Steel.