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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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