From the IRA’s dirty protests to Guantanamo Bay press tours, violence and trauma reverberate across the map and throughout generations. These projects include field reports filed post-captivity that dismantle the illusion of redemption narratives and expose inequalities in crime and punishment.
Set against the backdrop of the long history of the Texas prison system–from Juneteenth to Covid–Dark Cell Harlem Farm explores the death by suffocation of eight Black men at a prison plantation in 1913. Combining readings of primary source materials and personal reflections by formerly incarcerated individuals, footage of the prison landscapes where the incident took place, and a series of graphical interventions and excavations, the film makes an urgent and uncompromising argument for the impossibility of prison reform and the necessity of prison abolition.
- Year2022
- Runtime27 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorAlexander Johnston
From the IRA’s dirty protests to Guantanamo Bay press tours, violence and trauma reverberate across the map and throughout generations. These projects include field reports filed post-captivity that dismantle the illusion of redemption narratives and expose inequalities in crime and punishment.
Set against the backdrop of the long history of the Texas prison system–from Juneteenth to Covid–Dark Cell Harlem Farm explores the death by suffocation of eight Black men at a prison plantation in 1913. Combining readings of primary source materials and personal reflections by formerly incarcerated individuals, footage of the prison landscapes where the incident took place, and a series of graphical interventions and excavations, the film makes an urgent and uncompromising argument for the impossibility of prison reform and the necessity of prison abolition.
- Year2022
- Runtime27 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorAlexander Johnston