Perspectivism

dir. Kyle Maki
2025
Running time: 29 min.

Film

Perspectivism is a meditation on activism’s quiet battlegrounds. While coastal activists face deportations and arrests, the University of Missouri silences opposition through investigations, exclusions, and gradual erasure. The film follows the president of Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine, as she navigates a homecoming ban, GOP accusations of terrorism, and her own growing isolation on campus. When her satirical protest draws administrative wrath, a deeper question surfaces: What does resistance mean when it’s met not with batons, but with administrative codes? When the audience isn’t the state, but a community conditioned to look away?

Kyle Maki

Kyle Maki is a student activist, documentarian, and history major whose film Perspectivism examines the bureaucratic suppression of campus organizing. A member of the Young Democratic Socialists of America and photojournalist, his work highlights conflicts like those faced by Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine, asking how resistance persists when repression takes an institutional, administrative form.