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Eastern State Living Behind The Walls
Tony Alosi 2007
Categories: Documentary
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Run time: 76 min. | USA
The first prison reform group in the world began meeting at the home of Benjamin Franklin in 1787. How far has prison reform progressed in 220 years? Why do we now use solitary confinement as a punishment, when it was determined to be a form of psychological torture? This feature-length documentary addresses these questions through the stories of some of the last people to live and work at Eastern State Penitentiary, the world's first prison designed to reform rather than punish criminals using solitary confinement as the cornerstone of its system of rehabilitation. The film explores the conflicting goals of punishment and reform, and how they continue to be at odds in our modern day prison system.
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1:30 PM     Sun, Apr 27 Edwards Island 4 + add to cal buy tickets
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director
Tony Alosi
 
producer
Tony Alosi
composer
Cody Westheimer
cinematographer
Pete Villani
editor
KC Wayland
music director
Cody Westheimer
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Rated 4.0/5 Stars
Danny Lemos
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The film presents a ruthless look inside an experiment gone awry. Tony Alosi caught the magnifence of the building's architecture and presented the images with grace and respect while laying the stories of those who lived behind the walls onto those images. The effect was masterful; producing discomfort with the raw truth of homosexual rape while breathing life into that huge, lifeless monster of a building, a building that hosted its own share of discomfort in many lives. The pace of the film felt like a graceful ride down the river Styx. Bravo.
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