Film

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

2016 · 1h 30m · Documentary

IMDb

6.9

Rotten Tomatoes

88%

Metacritic

86

More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. This is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. The film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from an anti-sex-offender pocket park in Los Angeles, to a congregation of ex-incarcerated chess players shut out of the formal labor market, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.

Charisse Davidson

Self

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

• Brett StoryDirector · Writer · Producer
• Maya BankovicDirector of Photography
• Olivier AlaryOriginal Music Composer
• Avrïl JacobsonEditor

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Trailer

Release date

March 17, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

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