“I’m not interested in finding the truth,” says artist Jordan Strafer, “I’m trying to find the spaces around truth.”  An improbable combination of surrealist humor, cultural homage, and critical engagement, Strafer’s video artworks are deeply researched and elaborately art-directed reenactments of personal experiences and historical events. Drawing on all corners of American culture, from the 1991 televised rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to pop cultural touchstones like The Oprah Winfrey Show, Strafer often examines the performance of justice in the United States. The child of Miami criminal defense attorneys, Strafer dramatizes trials and the particularities of language used by lawyers, defendants, and witnesses, evoking how the theatricality of the American legal system shapes and distorts our collective sense of justice. Capturing the artist and her cast and crew on the set of her latest video work—TALK SHOW (2026), which premiered at the 2026 Whitney Biennial—this short documentary traces the development of Strafer’s idiosyncratic sensibility, following the artist on deep dives into 1980s “Inner Child” pop psychology and 1990s erotic thriller aesthetics. Underneath the videos’ humor and absurdity, Strafer’s storytelling style is quietly driven by her desire to complicate the morality at the heart of the cultural moments she portrays.