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Hard-hitting, beautiful video from AG Rojas. Here is "Cody"

Date
5 February 2013

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AG Rojas has always been a little rebellious with his filmmaking. From making Jack White run about with some dangerous kids to making a short film about aliens and drugs, he knows how to keep his audience clawing at him for more. His latest piece is part of TRIBUTE, a “series of short films about youth” that has been recently debuted on Dazed Digital. In Cody, Rojas focuses on a boy who, we find out, is involved in a rather sinister turn of events

“Shot in Taft, California, AG’s Cody continues his vein of lyrical, poetic and complex narratives about youth outsiders. This time, though, it’s an all too real tale of youth and reticence he documents.”

A person looks into the camera with a slight smile. Behind them, yellow leaves on a tree are lit against a dark night sky.
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AG Rojas: Cody

A wide landscape of a dry, scrubby plain under a pale blue sky. Low, rolling mountains sit on the horizon beneath a scattering of soft white clouds.
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AG Rojas: Cody

A silhouette of a large, rectangular structure stands against a bright, hazy sky. To the left, an oil pumpjack is visible in the distance across a flat landscape.
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AG Rojas: Cody

A person wearing a beanie and a checked shirt stands with their back to the camera. They look across a flat, sandy landscape toward a derelict, single-storey building.
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AG Rojas: Cody

A person in profile wears a grey beanie and a green checked shirt. They stand in front of a row of dilapidated buildings with boarded up windows.
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AG Rojas: Cody

A person wearing a grey beanie and a green checked shirt looks directly at the camera. Behind them is a weathered brick wall with faded graffiti.
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AG Rojas: Cody

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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