Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.
A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.
A priest visits an unrepentant death row prisoner, as the two spend time together the priest comes to understand the prisoner, and the prisoner begins to come to terms with his inevitable death.
Out after 46 years in prison, Anthony Blanks must now re-learn how to live a normal life. But with no surviving family, money or technical skills needed for modern-day living, he is struggling to re-build his life. So he is on a journey to find new family, apply for state benefits, and take technology literacy classes to get by.
The men in prison are frustrated and in agony. It's difficult because the desires of these men are concentrated on just one man. A man raped in the place of a woman. Although he is reluctant to do so, he gradually becomes fascinated by the variety of techniques possessed by the yakuza.
The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.
A prisoner is locked away in a lonely prison cell as part of a state-of-the-art program for prisoners all over the nation, operated by the notorious Doctor Money because of a recent deadly virus spreading throughout the world. While locked away, the prisoner uses an audio messaging system to communicate with others outside the prison. Those who communicate with him are people such as a long time friend Salvadore, a pastry shop owner Charlotte, a personal “Happy Buddy” with no name, and Doctor Money himself. The prisoner must attempt to keep his own sanity while trying to survive the harsh world of “Presentable Liberty”.
We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.
This documentary, which features Sergei Parajanov’s heartbreaking letters from prison, explores creativity among inmates and the art born in conditions designed to destroy all traces of selfhood.
A short, low-budget documentary that follows a small jobbing band from the north of England called 'Hardwicke Circus' as they perform a gig and music workshop at 'Standford Hill HMP', a men's prison on the Isle of Sheppey in the south of England. Shot in Ben Archer's fly-on-the-wall 'gonzo' style of filmmaking and taken from the band's late-2019 tour of England's south coast, this documentary focuses on the joy of performance and music in an environment that does not often allow such expression. Bookended by short commentary from the band's lead singer Jonny Foster, 'Hardwicke Circus: The Prison Gig' is an uplifting ode to the power and necessity of art, even for those that society have deemed not to deserve it.
Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.
Sexploitatation drama very loosely based on the former penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
Skin flick about bank robbery.
Capturing the early recording process of the compilation album “Prison Songs: Nyanyian yang Dibungkam”, this film is a collaborative work of Komunitas Taman 65 Bali, archiving history through dialogue with composers and people knowledgeable with the songs of Pekambingan penitentiary, Denpasar.
A film narrated by a prison interview with long-jailed black radical Ojore Lutalo. Ojore touches on many issues, from what prisons are, to why he is in prison to the nature of the black radical struggle. Ojore was released in 2009, only to be rearrested a few months later as the alleged "Amtrak Terrorist" in Colorado. All charges were dropped after no one was able to provide any evidence of wrongdoing.
A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.
P.A.K. is an intensely personal document expressing the alienation, pain, and trauma of a prison experience. Using techniques of German expressionism, it examines the social and institutional forces that inform one's subjective self-definition. Stark contrasts, are combined with harsh prison reality with escape into the fantasy, beauty, and grace of classical ballet. The conflict is underscored by elements of the sound track: reverberating prison noises, the uncompromising music of punk rock and voice-over readings from the poetic works of notable writers and political prisoners Oscar Wilde and Breyton Bretonbach.
A 17 year old boy is sent to an adult prison for robbing a Fotomat with a toy gun. He thinks he's going to a minimum security camp where they send non-violent, first-time offenders, but the prison psychologist rattles his world by informing him that he's going inside (inside the walls of a maximum security prison). Shot in the Hampton's, (at the Sag Harbor historic jail) this film is a short adaptation from the award winning book, Fish: A Memoir of A Boy in a Man's Prison.