13 minutes that'll make your stomach drop. No commentary, no distance—just chaos.
"Luke Mogelson followed Trump supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook" (The New Yorker).
Direction
Mogelson's invisible presence—no interviews, pure observation.
Editing
Seamless phone footage assembled into coherent narrative arc.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mogelson's New Yorker piece published alongside this footage won the 2021 George Polk Award. He was inside the Capitol for roughly four hours.
This footage became crucial evidence in the second Trump impeachment trial—Mogelson testified that rioters told him they 'weren't leaving' until Trump was declared winner.
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