AT NIGHT I FLY: Images from New Folsom
The William James Association Prison Arts Project presents a benefit screening of At Night I Fly: Images of New Folsom, by Michel Wenzer, produced for the renowned documentary maker Story Ab.
This special presentation will be coming to the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m. A Q&A with New Folsom Prison Artist Facilitator Jim Carlson will follow. The film’s message and tickets generated, assist with the ongoing efforts and contributions that the WJA offers as hope and healing through meaningful arts experiences for Santa Cruz County Jail and San Quentin and other Prison residents.
Tickets for this very special benefit may be reserved & purchased online at EventBrite: https://atnightiflyscruz.eventbrite.com/.
Modestly collecting awards from EU film festivals, At Night I Fly premiered stateside in New York City’s MoMA in January, where it was selected for the venue’s prestigious “Documentary Fortnight.†This intensive project, shot over 2 years, reveals “forgotten†men at one of California’s most maximum security prisons, and let’s us see their vulnerabilities. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes, “about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the heart. And the spirit.â€
This intimate documentary shows prisoners, most serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to uncover and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom’s Arts in Corrections’ room, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more scenes of creation. This film that seems at first to be a prison documentary becomes, by its end, a profound exploration of what it is to be human.
::William James Association & the Prison Arts Project::
Begun in 1977, WJA's Prison Arts Project is dedicated to providing arts instruction to incarcerated individuals in the belief that participation in the artistic process significantly and positively effects their view of themselves and the world around them. For more information please visit our website: https://www.williamjamesassociation.org
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The William James Association Prison Arts Project presents a benefit screening of At Night I Fly: Images of New Folsom, by Michel Wenzer, produced for the renowned documentary maker Story Ab.
This special presentation will be coming to the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m. A Q&A with New Folsom Prison Artist Facilitator Jim Carlson will follow. The film’s message and tickets generated, assist with the ongoing efforts and contributions that the WJA offers as hope and healing through meaningful arts experiences for Santa Cruz County Jail and San Quentin and other Prison residents.
Tickets for this very special benefit may be reserved & purchased online at EventBrite: https://atnightiflyscruz.eventbrite.com/.
Modestly collecting awards from EU film festivals, At Night I Fly premiered stateside in New York City’s MoMA in January, where it was selected for the venue’s prestigious “Documentary Fortnight.†This intensive project, shot over 2 years, reveals “forgotten†men at one of California’s most maximum security prisons, and let’s us see their vulnerabilities. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes, “about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the heart. And the spirit.â€
This intimate documentary shows prisoners, most serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to uncover and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom’s Arts in Corrections’ room, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more scenes of creation. This film that seems at first to be a prison documentary becomes, by its end, a profound exploration of what it is to be human.
::William James Association & the Prison Arts Project::
Begun in 1977, WJA's Prison Arts Project is dedicated to providing arts instruction to incarcerated individuals in the belief that participation in the artistic process significantly and positively effects their view of themselves and the world around them. For more information please visit our website: https://www.williamjamesassociation.org
AT NIGHT I FLY: Images from New Folsom
The William James Association Prison Arts Project presents a benefit screening of At Night I Fly: Images of New Folsom, by Michel Wenzer, produced for the renowned documentary maker Story Ab.
This special presentation will be coming to the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m. A Q&A with New Folsom Prison Artist Facilitator Jim Carlson will follow. The film’s message and tickets generated, assist with the ongoing efforts and contributions that the WJA offers as hope and healing through meaningful arts experiences for Santa Cruz County Jail and San Quentin and other Prison residents.
Tickets for this very special benefit may be reserved & purchased online at EventBrite: https://atnightiflyscruz.eventbrite.com/.
Modestly collecting awards from EU film festivals, At Night I Fly premiered stateside in New York City’s MoMA in January, where it was selected for the venue’s prestigious “Documentary Fortnight.†This intensive project, shot over 2 years, reveals “forgotten†men at one of California’s most maximum security prisons, and let’s us see their vulnerabilities. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes, “about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the heart. And the spirit.â€
This intimate documentary shows prisoners, most serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to uncover and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom’s Arts in Corrections’ room, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more scenes of creation. This film that seems at first to be a prison documentary becomes, by its end, a profound exploration of what it is to be human.
::William James Association & the Prison Arts Project::
Begun in 1977, WJA's Prison Arts Project is dedicated to providing arts instruction to incarcerated individuals in the belief that participation in the artistic process significantly and positively effects their view of themselves and the world around them. For more information please visit our website: https://www.williamjamesassociation.org
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The William James Association Prison Arts Project presents a benefit screening of At Night I Fly: Images of New Folsom, by Michel Wenzer, produced for the renowned documentary maker Story Ab.
This special presentation will be coming to the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m. A Q&A with New Folsom Prison Artist Facilitator Jim Carlson will follow. The film’s message and tickets generated, assist with the ongoing efforts and contributions that the WJA offers as hope and healing through meaningful arts experiences for Santa Cruz County Jail and San Quentin and other Prison residents.
Tickets for this very special benefit may be reserved & purchased online at EventBrite: https://atnightiflyscruz.eventbrite.com/.
Modestly collecting awards from EU film festivals, At Night I Fly premiered stateside in New York City’s MoMA in January, where it was selected for the venue’s prestigious “Documentary Fortnight.†This intensive project, shot over 2 years, reveals “forgotten†men at one of California’s most maximum security prisons, and let’s us see their vulnerabilities. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes, “about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the heart. And the spirit.â€
This intimate documentary shows prisoners, most serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to uncover and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom’s Arts in Corrections’ room, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more scenes of creation. This film that seems at first to be a prison documentary becomes, by its end, a profound exploration of what it is to be human.
::William James Association & the Prison Arts Project::
Begun in 1977, WJA's Prison Arts Project is dedicated to providing arts instruction to incarcerated individuals in the belief that participation in the artistic process significantly and positively effects their view of themselves and the world around them. For more information please visit our website: https://www.williamjamesassociation.org
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