AMHERST CINEMA
February 6, 2017, 7pm
Screening and Q&A with Brett Story, Director of 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 film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA from 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.
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