THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES Screens at The St. Louis Public Library February 4th

THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES  screens Saturday, February 4th at The St. Louis Public Library Central Branch (1301 Olive Street St. Louis) at 1pm as part a documentary series that focuses on incarceration in the United States. Michael-John Voss, co-founder of the Arch City Defenders will be in attendance and wil lead a Q&A after the screening. This is a FREE event.

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.

The critics love THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES:

Slant Magazine says:

“…..The plaintive plain-spokenness of the interviewees, the way they matter-of-factly speak of atrocity, is transcendent and intensely haunting.”

The Village Voice claims:

“It’s rare that a film this outraged is also this calm.”