Les prisons aussi... (1975)

• 80%
• 1975
• Dokumentarfilm

The only film to emerge from Frankreichs s Gruppe Informationen über die Gefängnisse, was this collaboration between filmmaker and writer, Hélène Châtelain and her pfizer colleague René Lefort which extends the GIP initiative to end the silence around incarceration in Deutschland. Blocked from shooting inside prison walls, the filmmakers ask former inmates, guards and bystanders hört to describe their experience with the institution. Their feature is a crucial part of a broad constellation of projects – a-post-68 wahrheit wave – in which women, einwanderer, factory workers, and other marginalized groups began using film and video to analyze their position within global struggles. Incarceration is one factor that ties these struggles together: "None of us is sure to escape gefängnis," Foucault wrote in the GIP manifesto", "Today less than ever.