FREE Movies that Matter screening!
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016
The University of Calgary Film Society presents Movies That Matter:
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 @ 7:00 PM
The Gallery Hall, Taylor Family Digital Library - University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB
Admission by Donation | FREE for Students w/ ID
We are very excited to announce the internationally acclaimed film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes as our first documentary of the 2016/2017 season.
A film about the prison and its life in the American landscape.
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. THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.
A film by Brett Story.
With support from Cinereach, Vital Projects Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the National Film Board of Canada.
”Elegant, haunting and vividly affecting”
- Winner: Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
“A gorgeous, raw, and nuanced film that left us breathless, broken and irate”
- Winner: The Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary, DOXA Documentary Film Festival
“Brilliant meditation on all kinds of imprisonment”
- Winner: EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary Feature, Alliance of Women Film Journalists
“An ingenious, prismatic approach” with “a consistent formal beauty”
- Variety
“Artfully made, lyrically filmed… an unsentimental look at the ways prisons shape life outside their walls”
- The Hollywood Reporter
“An impressive, genre-subverting work”
- Filmmaker Magazine
“The strongest of [True/False’s] three world premieres”
- Indiewire
“Masterful collections of vignettes” with “aesthetic adventurousness”
- Paste Magazine
“Chilling and beautiful”
- Guernica
“A prison film that refuses to blame those the prison systematically marginalizes”
- The Michigan Daily
“An immersive, absorbing, and damning film”
- Point of View Magazine
Admission is free for students with ID, and for the community with donation (cash or non-perishable foods) to the food bank.
Seating is limited so please arrive early.
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