Time / Amazon Studios presents ; in partnership with Concordia Studio ; in association with The New York Times ; an Outer Piece, Concordia Studio and Hedgehog Films production ; directed by Garrett Bradley ; produced by Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, Garrett Bradley.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 72 x 17 cm, folded to 17 x 12)
Featuring Sibil Fox Richardson. Originally released as a motion picture in 2020. Wide screen (1.89:1). Features: New 4k digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; New audio commentary featuring director Garrett Bradley; New interview with the film's protagonists, Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson; New conversation between Bradley and critic and author Hilson Als; Alone (2017), a short documentary by Bradley, with optional 2021 commentary by the film's protagonist, Aloné Watts; Trailer; An essay by critic Doreen St. Félix. Accompanied by folded sheet (12 pages) including : essay by critic Doreen St. Félix ; Director's note ; Credits.
Summary:
"What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, Garrett Bradley's Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years' worth of Richardson's own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in Time a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family's extraordinary efforts to stay whole"--Container.
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