The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016)

Directed by

Brett Story

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary uses twelve different locations to show how the prison system affects communities across the United States. It examines places like a wildfire crew of incarcerated women and a pocket park. Each vignette reveals a different way mass incarceration shapes everyday life.

contemplativeobservationalsoberingslow-pacedreflectiveunsettlingquietly political

What happens

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Brett Story and released in 2016. The film explores the social impact of the prison–industrial complex in the United States through twelve vignettes, each consisting of different settings that portray how the system has affected them. Ranging from incarcerated women fighting wildfires, to strategically placed pocket parks, to the civil unrest in Detroit in 1967, the film demonstrates the vast impact the mass incarceration dilemma in the United States has had across the country. The film premiered at the True/False Film Festival in March 2016, and had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in May. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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