Directed by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz • 2013 • Puerto Rico
After prolonged incarceration and sensory deprivation, some prisoners experience visual hallucinations filled with extraordinary luminescence and color—visions sometimes referred to as “prisoner’s cinema.” Drawing on the writings of Puerto Rican artist and author Elizam Escobar—who served nineteen years in U.S. prisons for the crime of seditious conspiracy—Beatriz Santiago Muñoz creates the film that might have been imagined by Escobar during his incarceration.
Up Next in Artists on Artists: 12 Short Films Presented by This Long Century
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Antoine/Milena
Directed by Sharon Lockhart • 2015 • United States
Artist Sharon Lockhart recreates a classic sequence from François Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS, starring her recurring collaborator Milena in the Antoine Doinel role.
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The Foundation
Directed by P. Staff • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom
Originally conceived as a gallery installation, THE FOUNDATION explores the complex legacy of gay fetish artist Tom of Finland via a portrait of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles and the community that has formed around it.
