PRISON IMAGES

PRISON IMAGES (GEFÄNGNİSBİLDER), 2000
Germany | DVD, Black-White & Color, 80' | German
Director: Harun Farocki

How have prisons been portrayed throughout the hundred years of film history? What kinds of images are there in surveillance cameras and in training videos for prison guards? In Farocki’s film penal institutions become an anthropological laboratory in which life and death are examined through the eye of the camera.