Film | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes + Q&A with Director Brett Story

MP4 File | 2016 | Directed by Brett Story | Canada | 90 minutes | English Free admission and open to the public. No registration required. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes excavates the hidden world of the modern prison system and explores lives outside the gates affected by prisons. The film traverses twelve unexpected locations — from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse with goods destined for the state correctional system, to a rural Kentucky mining town that now depends on the local penitentiary for jobs. "[The questons posed by] The Prison in Twelve Landscapes...are reminders of how little attention is actually paid to the complexity of what has become the most extensive national system of incarceration on the planet and its various, often nearly invisible impacts on our lives. For Story, the walls around the prison at Attica (the final landscape in the film) are both material and a metaphor for the less obvious walls that divide sectors of this society from one another and prevent an honest reckoning with a remarkably brutal and wasteful dimension of American life." -Scott MacDonald, Film Quarterly The screening will be followed by a conversation with the director Brett Story. Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and the Film and Media Studies Program