Two weeks before Barack Obama’s election, director Jeff Deutchman asked friends around the world to record their experience of a day that had become historic before it had even taken place.

When: Saturday, July 24 noon
Where: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road

In this documentary, a global canvas unfolds. In St. Louis and Austin, idealistic volunteers think they can turn their states blue. In Chicago, voter lines grow even longer when Obama shows up to cast his own vote. In Dubai, Berlin, Geneva and New Delhi, expatriates express their emotion from a distance. And in Harlem, a felon casts doubt on whether any of this will affect his life. What emerges is a portrait of how people choose to live through history: the celebration of a new future remaining entangled with the universally visible tensions of the past.