ABSTRACT
The 16mm b/w hand-drawn film, Possible Models, begins by outlining a news story about John Ashcroft’s announcement in June 2004 that a Somali immigrant to Columbus, Ohio (my home state), was charged with plotting to blow up a mall. The Somali, Nuradin Abdi, was arrested in November 2003, and held for more than six months before being formally charged. Ashcroft’s announcement of this case came on 14 June 2004, a day before U.S. presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry, was scheduled to speak in Columbus. The film continues with three parts.
