Oct 29: An Evening with Brett Story

Oct 29: An Evening with Brett Story

The Department of English will be hosting Canadian filmmaker Brett Story at a screening of her critically acclaimed film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016, 90 min.). The event includes a Q&A and discussion with Story after the film.

Event details:

Tuesday, October 29
6-9pm
SY 110

Synopsis of the film:

"More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs."

Bio for Brett Story:

Brett Story is a geographer and award-winning non-fiction filmmaker.  She is Assistant Professor of Documentary Media at Ryerson University. Her films have screened at True/False, Oberhausen, Hot Docs, the Viennale, and Dok Leipzig, among other international festivals.  Her second feature-length film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes  (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a nominee for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Her interests across the fields of documentary and critical theory are expansive, and include experimental cinema and essay films, politics and aesthetics, racial capitalism and Marxist political economy, and visual geography. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is the author Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). She was a 2016 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.