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Nov
7
2019

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes - Director Brett Story in Person

When: Thursday, November 7, 2019
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT

Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free and open to all

Contact: Block Museum of Art   (847) 491-4000

Group: Block Museum of Art

Co-Sponsor: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

New Docs
Thursday, November 7, 7 PM
FREE

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
(Brett Story, 2016, USA, DCP, 87 min)

The Block welcomes Toronto-based filmmaker Brett Story for two nights of her acclaimed documentary films. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes explores the criminal justice system and mass incarceration in the U.S. from a number of oblique vantage points, rather than focusing on prisons themselves. Story looks at female prisoners used as labor to fight California wildfires, a Bronx, New York warehouse for prisoner care packages, a rural coal town anticipating jobs at a new prison, and Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed. Throughout, Story connects the ways that the prison-industrial complex reverberates through communities around the country, offering micro-portraits that illuminate the reach of the prison system beyond penitentiary walls.

In person: filmmaker Brett Story

Co-presented with the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the MFA in Documentary Media

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