No Such Thing As A Humane Cage: A Film Screening

[RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY 6/20]

Join W.O.W. Project and cinemóvil nyc for an evening of films honoring resistance efforts against the US prison system, led and dreamed by those directly impacted. Through these films, we’ll share the history, wisdom, and art of political prisoners and organizers navigating survival from within, and discuss what we can apply and practice locally in the abolitionist struggle. Event is free and open to all, with light refreshments.

Featuring:

• What These Walls Won’t Hold (2023, 43 min, dir. Adamu Chan) details the experiences of those incarcerated at California’s San Quentin State Prison during the height of COVID-19, inside/outside organizing for mass releases, and the transformative relationships that have pushed forth abolitionist struggle.

• Dark Cell Harlem Farm (2022, 26 min, dir. Alexander Johnston) draws together primary sources, graphic text, and reflections from formerly incarcerated individuals to explore the harrowing legacy of a prison plantation in southeast Texas, where eight Black men were killed by suffocation in 1913.
• New York: Close Spofford Campaign | CJNY Justice Spotlight (2011, 3 min, dir. Shadi Rahimi and Yoram Savion) highlights the grassroots movement to close the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in the Bronx.

🔊 Films are in English with open captions; content warning for disturbing accounts of state-sanctioned violence in prisons and jails

♿ Location is wheelchair accessible, no bathrooms

😷 Folks encouraged to rapid test before coming