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Event
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 7:30pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
At The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Filmmaker Brett Story in person! Los Angeles premiere!
Los Angeles Filmforum is proud to welcome filmmaker Brett Story in person for the Los Angeles premiere of her award-winning film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes.
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 non-fiction film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. A meditation on the prisons disappearance in the era of mass incarceration, the film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of ordinary places across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives: from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight the regions raging wildfires, to a warehouse in the Bronx full of goods specially produced to meet the arcane regulations of the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.
Brett Story adopts an ingenious, prismatic approach to her film about the effects of mass incarceration on U.S. society. - Variety, March 4, 2016
New York Times Film Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/movies/the-prison-in-twelve-landscapes-review.html?_r=0
Trailer for the film:
https://vimeo.com/105073038
Tickets: $10 general; $6 for students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at or at the door.
For more information: www.lafilmforum.org or 323-377-7238
Screening:
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
By Brett Story
2016, DCP, 90 min.
About the Artist:
Brett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her first feature-length documentary, the award-winning Land of Destiny(2010), screened internationally and was broadcast on both Canadian and American television. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio, The Nation Magazine, and Antipode. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institutes 2014 New Visions Award, is an alumna of the Berlinale Talents Doc Station (2014) and was a nominee for the 2015 Ontario Premiers Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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This program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and Bloomberg Philanthropies. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.
Los Angeles Filmforum is the citys longest-running organization dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries, video art, and experimental animation. 2016 is our 41st year.
Memberships available, $70 single, $115 dual, or $50 single student
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LocationAt the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, (View)
6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Los Angeles, CA 90028
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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