Directed by Phil Collins • 2020 • Germany, United States
Art and activism collide in this empowering documentary, which examines the injustices of America’s prison-industrial complex and the power of house music as a catalyst for human connection, transformation, and liberation. A collaboration between filmmaker Phil Collins and the Black, Latino, and queer artists, activists, and formerly incarcerated people who, in 2018, created a temporary space in downtown Manhattan that served as both a hub for prison-abolition organizing and a venue for exhilarating dance parties, BRING DOWN THE WALLS proposes a vision of social justice in which collective action and communal celebration are inextricably entwined.
Up Next in Radical Dreams, Underground Sounds: 13 Films Presented by Dweller
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Songs for Earth & Folk
Directed by Cauleen Smith • 2013 • United States
Made in 2013, this short by Cauleen Smith is composed entirely of 16 mm and Super 8 found footage and is structured like a blues song, with a live-improvised electro-organic soundtrack created by Chicago-based band the Eternals.
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I Held the Truth in My Hands
Directed by Anaïs Duplan • 2020 • United States
A poem by Anaïs Duplan unfolds forwards and backwards in a trancey, beat-driven audiovisual remix.
