French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an enormously ambitious collaboration with the facility’s inmates.
Direction
JR erases himself to let prisoners become co-directors
Cinematography
Drone shots of murals swallowing concrete walls whole
Editing
Inmates' voices cut over their own footage—no outside narrator
Director
JR
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
JR smuggled camera equipment inside by claiming it was 'art supplies,' which security technically couldn't restrict under prison guidelines.
The film continues a legacy of prison art interventions from Attica to Sing Sing, but breaks new ground by handing inmates the cameras themselves.
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