A Gray State

A Gray State
A Gray State
	Film poster
Release date	April 2017 (Tribeca);

A Gray State is a 2017 documentary film directed by Erik Nelson and executive produced by Werner Herzog, first broadcast on the A&E Network. It explores the death by suicide of aspiring filmmaker David Crowley and the murders of his wife and child in 2014. The film tells the story of Crowley's military service in the Middle East, his efforts to fund and make a film, and explores the circumstances surrounding the deaths. Producer Herzog and director Nelson had previously worked together on 2005's Grizzly Man, which Nelson produced, and Herzog directed.^[1]^[2]

Crowley had been working on a feature film he called Gray State.^[3] In Crowley's film shadowy elements from within the US government declare a state of emergency start rounding up ordinary Americans, placing them in extrajudicial detention, or flat out murdering them. Heroic fans of the Constitutions Second Amendment try to resist.

References

^ "A Gray State: An A&E IndieFilms Presentation". Arts & Entertainment TV. Retrieved 2020-03-29. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film's crowdfunded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists as well as members of the nascent alt-right.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Ben Kenigsberg (2017-11-02). "Review: 'A Gray State,' Behind a Filmmaker's Madness". The New York Times. p. C10. Retrieved 2020-03-29. Perhaps because Mr. Crowley was drawn to the paranoid fringe (he is shown meeting and watching Alex Jones), the deaths became a cause for conspiracy theorists.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Wilkinson, Alec (April 3, 2017). "American Chronicles: Death of a Dystopian". The New Yorker. Alt-right conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley. The truth is far stranger.

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[aetvAGrayState-1] "A Gray State: An A&E IndieFilms Presentation". Arts & Entertainment TV. Retrieved 2020-03-29. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film's crowdfunded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists as well as members of the nascent alt-right.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[nytimes2017-11-02-2] Ben Kenigsberg (2017-11-02). "Review: 'A Gray State,' Behind a Filmmaker's Madness". The New York Times. p. C10. Retrieved 2020-03-29. Perhaps because Mr. Crowley was drawn to the paranoid fringe (he is shown meeting and watching Alex Jones), the deaths became a cause for conspiracy theorists.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[3] Wilkinson, Alec (April 3, 2017). "American Chronicles: Death of a Dystopian". The New Yorker. Alt-right conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley. The truth is far stranger.

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