Monday, February 17 • 7pm
Tehachapi
JR, DCP, 92 min
France / US, 2023 (English)
Midwest premiere
The artist JR documents the creation of large-scale photographic works at the maximum security prison in California developed in collaboration with 28 detainees and their prison guards. The widescreen format used to film the prison’s enclosed space transmits the power of art as a tool for hope and human transformation within an inherently harsh criminal justice system.
Co-sponsored by UWM Sociocultural Programming, the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies & The Community
Talkback with Shannon Ross (Executive Director, The Community) & Carl Fields (Director of Correcting the Narrative, The Community)
Check out JR’s 2021 time in Downtown Milwaukee during the People’s Art Project visit.
https://www.milwaukeedowntown.com/experience/blog/french-artist-jrs-inside-out-project-joins-jumpstart-downtown-campaign
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Following on from the screening of JR’s Tehachapi, consider attending the UWM series focusing on the incarceration system, from Feb 24 to March 14.
Students, faculty and staff are invited to engage in an interactive exhibit, experience a re-entry simulation and attend a film screening, all part of the From Incarceration to Empowerment: Simulation and Dialogue Series.
https://uwm.edu/news/series-focuses-on-incarceration-system/