Prisoner's Cinema
2013 - Film & Video (Film & Video)
30:00 minutes
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Another curious element is that it seemed that I was seeing images from the dreams I had that afternoon. But these images were appearing from end to beginning, like a film reel running backwards. I also couldn’t properly situate them. -Elizam Escobar, Anti-Diarios de Prisión After prolonged incarceration and sensory deprivation, some prisoners experience visual hallucinations filled with extraordinary luminescence and color. These hallucinations are sometimes referred to as “prisoners’ cinema.” The subject of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s film Prisoner’s Cinema , Elizam Escobar, is a Puerto Rican artist and writer who served 19 years in US prisons for the crime of seditious conspiracy. Escobar never experienced these visual hallucinations, but his writing during these years evidences an extreme and sometimes painful attention to mental processes, and an expanded sensorial, emotional and intellectual internal life. Prisoner’s Cinema is the film that might have been imagined by Escobar during these years of imprisonment. The words in the film are taken from what Escobar has called his prison Anti-diary , a record of the thought processes that ran parallel to his painting, poetry and essays from 1988 to 1995. This work picks up a thread that runs through much of Santiago Muñoz’s practice, a deep and ongoing investigation of the ramifications of political and intellectual resistance to the colonization of Puerto Rico by the United States.
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her approach to making films and videos resembles the careful approach of an ethnographer. She learns about the place, the site of the film, its cultural histories and local mythologies. She learns about the people who are both subject and actors. She invites them to participating through enacting their own life, or an aspect of their cultural history. They trace the contours of cultural memory, and frame political and social issues. Her work combines documentary record, indigenous historical memory, participatory inflections, chance discovery, and fictional explorations.
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