Prison Valley
Doc Lab Presentation: Live Stories
When: 24 November at 13:30
Place: Escape Club
With: Perry Bard (Man With Movie Camera Global Remake), Austin Lynch (Interview Project), Stefano Strocchi (From Zero – Italy), and Alexandre Brachet (Prison Valley)
Filmmakers, curators and other guests talk about how internet and new media influence documentary storytelling and exhibition. Moderator Hans Maarten van den Brink.
Live Screening of Prison Valley
When: 24 November at 21:00
Place: Tuschinski 4
With: Alexandre Brachet
Live Screening and World premiere of Prison Valley, the new project by the makers of Gaza/Sderot.
With Upian
Year of development 2009
This web documentary on the prison industry is a road movie with interactive potential.
Welcome to Fremont County, better known as Prison Valley and home to 36,000 locals, 14 prisons, and 7,735 convicts. Prison Valley the documentary is directed by David Dufresne and Philippe Brault and produced by Alexandre Brachet, the team whose film Gaza/Sderot was selected for Doc Lab last year.
Prison Valley is a road movie with interactive potential. Using the Riviera Motel as the base of operations, the visitor moves around Prison Valley to investigate the background of the prison industry.
Along the way, he or she meets the people involved, including the sheriff, a journalist, and a prison guard. But the visitor is never alone, because other visitors are always "visible," and at various points in the story all the visitors and those affiliated with the industry can access "interactive zones," where they can enter into a live discussion on the issues the documentary tackles.
Where do our fears come from and what purpose do they serve? What will come of the interweaving of profit seeking, employment opportunities, and the justice system?
Tags : photography, video, human interest, interactive, social issues, locative media, web documentary, internet
