A Coté
Stéphane Mercurio
and Anna Zisman
If a subject hot news today is indeed that of incarceration. The documentary by Stéphane Mercurio ALONGSIDE addresses this about difficult and painful in a way unexpected incarceration "side" of families who come to visit detainees. We will not see anything or the prison-if not a few shots of the exterior or the living conditions of inmates.
However, the film reflects with strength and emotion of life in prison. These are the wives, mothers, fathers, children of prisoners who go "next door" of prisoners, on the other side of the wall we pass through their lives the reality of detention in prison for the imprisoned and another form of detention in a way, the experiences of parents of incarcerated. The lives of these women, these children, these men who live to the rhythm of visits to the prison, living "with" absent.
They (and they, mostly women) meet up for coffee or more, pending the entry (... or not) in the parlor. They tell us their hopes, fears, and they show us their courage, selflessness up sometimes, and they show us their love, their commitment to that on the other side of the wall. As says one of them, "we are here because someone you love has made a mistake and was punished for it, we, we did nothing, but we are punished by love this person "and in fact these women speaking out on prison conditions, inconsistencies and inequities of the judicial and prison sometimes illogical, contrary to any human evaluation, we talk about the impact of incarceration on their lives, a life in which they themselves are not entirely fact-free, a life, yet free, because they are incarcerated-that fully involved the incarceration of a loved their whole life in organizing function of days and weekends in the parlor, the pace of appointments with lawyers or judges, pending a trial, the pending information we want to give them good or not.
The quality and strength of the film lies in the originality of the implementation of the subject - the incarceration of foreign-lived and a bias in the filming strengthening the emotional impact the choice of an enclosed space and shooting tight frames, leaving at the same time the entire space (of speech and expression to the relatives of detainees: the presence of the director is almost imperceptible, and the few questions asked are expressed in a very discreet, down from the floor of the protagonists) strengthens the respect of parents inmates. The entire device places the viewer physically and emotionally closer to the experiences of families and circumstances of the inmate, by enclosing it in some way in virtually imprisoning.
The exterior shots remind us that life continues outside, with such stunning photographic shots almost like a time suspended than waiting until next parlor, before the release, that of a time Life stopped for the inmate and his family.
A beautiful documentary on a difficult topic not only treated with great humanity, but managing to get us into empathize with all those beings who are sharing, with great dignity, their sufferings, their hopes, of people who command respect for their resilience and distance taken with their own situation and their own suffering, to analyze the situation and suffering of the beloved time of his detention and departure from, a great lesson of love.
An eloquent film, in its way to broaden the scope of a more general analysis of the detention system and justice, considering not only the offender but also families, leaving a glimpse of the ( on) cost psychological and social, not the detention itself, but because of aberrations in procedures and organization thereof.
Malika LACOSTE
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Trailer:
Note, directed by Stéphane Mercurio:
HISTORY OF FILMING
In 2003, I met Anna Zisman at a sidewalk cafe. It is a desire on film reception areas near prisons. A film seems possible. I do not know much about these families and I have a strong desire to meet these "invisible". I like this idea of place unique symbol of both the bracket and confinement.
We travel to France in search of the ideal in nursing homes of families of prisoners, from Marseille to Lyon, Nice to Avignon via Lille, Bordeaux and Angoulême ... Finally, I sat right up against the prison in Fresnes. There, in a tiny room, I sat with families returning week after week, listening to these women, discovering a world I knew little or nothing. I remember this elderly, somewhat strong, humiliated. He was asked to remove her bra whose plates were ringing the portico. I forgot if she had taken off or if she had renounced her son that day. Another time, a blazer with gold buttons had sounded ... After a good forty travels, one thing is clear: the film to offer an additional level of perception of the prison. Beyond the experiences of families, this film will tell the prison, its arbitrariness, its prohibited. Hollow, but with obvious and even more violence.
I remember this woman who was flying to Marseille when finances would allow, of the other who came from Lyon with his children, train, subway, bus, more than six hours of door-to-door for thirty minutes parlor. I must tell these journeys, the life that continues outside the parlors, to be suspended. And the photograph would ... Thus were born the photographic sequences worked with Gregory Korganow. It was also during these discussions that begin scouting around sound and music with Patrick and Hervé Birolini Genet. The sound work is to tell the way the bubble, restore this very special temporality side of this life.
In Fresno, the association of volunteers enthusiastically accepts the filming. Women and a few fathers son, one after the other, to ignore the weeks to accept the idea, seize it. They want to speak. This is the first time I feel such a need on the part of "characters".
But after five months of service in the scene for two years, fifteen days before the shooting started, the Prison Service, which owns the walls of the reception center, excuse the level of red Vigipirate to deny us the shooting .
" Thanks "this prohibition arbitrary, producer Vivian Aquilla file with the CNC for an advance on receipts that the fi lm obtained in March 2006. Our only solution is to find a center independent of the prison administration, without being sure it exists. I ended up meeting the team from the Ti-tomm, Ti-Tomm, friendly little house next to the prison for men in Rennes. I myself installed in spring 2006, lamenting "the tough Fresno. But I feel very quickly that this place much milder, with tables decorated with flowers, her garden separated from the prison by a wall, is much more cinematic, the floor is much deeper, more intimate.
Ti-tomm For nearly ten months, I Ti-tomm twice a week at the opening. I meet Severine, Claire, Peter ... And when, two parlors, the center is blank for about fifteen minutes, I listen to the volunteers. In the weeks so gently, trust develops. Some women spend part of their day in the hostel. They share their problems, children playing in the garden, we chat over coffee ... I could be one of them. According to their story, I imagine my child, my husband or father in prison. I heard their anguish, "Do not know" their terror against suicide always present at the brawl gone bad. I knew their sleepless nights. I saw their financial problems, legal complexity, the fear of uncertainty, loneliness, shame ... The tremendous love. Every story, I wonder what I would do myself in their place. Without ever really answer ... Throughout the four years of work at hand, I met probably two hundred families. Never or almost, they challenge the imprisonment of a loved one. But they ask the same questions: "Why I can never know anything? Why is the first time I've seen in prison without knowing the rules, the machine he threw me in the face because "non-regulation"? Why can not I bring her books? Why should she get food secretly? Why do they have any prisoners "canteen" at prohibitive prices? Why do not we warned me if it is transferred? Why is he not informed if I missed a parlor that was just for a minute late? Why is the book my daughter's school may be signed by the father in Rennes and not Fresno? How these are women capable of such love? Why the trouble extend to them, often the only link with the outside of the inmate, the only chance to return to normal life, the only hope of rehabilitation. Why?
Stéphane Mercurio
Note, co-author, Anna Zisman:
GENESIS
is Francoise, my editor friend, that m ' helped to lift the lid. She knows my writing. She knows me, simply. She said: "You have a cinematic style." I kept this phrase in my box. And then I told him about this, about these hotels near prisons, which should not be there to welcome those who come too far to see their incarcerated family, forced to spend a night there before returning home.
I realized it was a movie to do. I started looking for these hotels, I had imagined rather than folded. Out of the box, the topic has almost disappeared. Because of those hotels as I planned, there is none. A few phone calls and visits I have learned quickly. I had the idea a homogeneous place, self, a parenthesis between everyday time and that of the prison. I kept looking. They were well these spaces exist, or if not, where would they go, all these people who must organize their lives based on hours of parlor that they be given?
They are about two hundred. Two hundred home sites in France, managed by associations. Besides the prison. In apartments, places assigned by the mayor, or, more rarely, buildings designed for this purpose, volunteers are there to welcome the families of inmates. While people spend hence, often every time they come to the parlor, two or three times a week. So that we can meet them. Discover that they prefer to arrive well in advance before the hour to see their son, husband to give himself time to get into another time, between the very short term short quarter of an hour of visit, and the very long term of the sentence. Discover that habits are being established, discover that relationships are formed, discover that there really is a film to do here. Then I was introduced to Françoise Stephane. Because she thought her eye of filmmaker that I intend to tell him. And right now, everything became very real. You had to go see places, meet people, to confront the idea at the prospect of making a fi lm. It was almost magical feel how so quickly, Stephane has possession of this project I had so long kept at the bottom of a box.
Anna ZISMAN
Note the photographer, Gregory Korganow
60,000 inmates in French prisons. How many mothers, fathers, women and children? It is not known. Invisible. We do not represent no, you do not listen, you do not see them. They exist in almost all people.
(c) Gregory Korganow In 2005, filmmaker Stéphane Mercurio asked me to participate in his film, Next, families of prisoners. She had installed a camera inside a visitor center in Rennes, all against the male prison. Families come here before and after the parlors, several times a week. She asked me to photograph the families of prisoners outside the center, especially when traveling to some of these families from their homes in the prison. I knew nothing of the prison. Like many, I never imagined that behind an inmate, there was often a family that loved this man deprived of liberty. I realized at the reception center in Rennes.
(c) Gregory Korganow I took while in the face this reality: the brutality of the prison. I saw the anger of this young girl of 17 who refused the prison visitation, claiming it was a minor. I saw the distress of the mother holding a baby in her arms, Announcement of the transfer of his son, "his great" lost in a prison, 400 miles away, with no way to get there. She had no license, probably some money and 5 children. I saw the hands of this woman writhing in agony after visiting the parlor. He was told that her husband was not there. Period. Where was he? What could have happened to him? No response.
(c) Gregory Korganow I saw women hide under their clothes to give them some candy on the sly to their man for the parlor. I was impressed by the dignity of these women, these men, these children who are struggling to keep this love, the only chance of rehabilitation for an inmate. I am totally committed to this project. For over a year, I photographed these lives suspended in parentheses: in a trial by jury, a move to get closer to the incarcerated husband, a savage parlor - women sometimes come to the foot walls of the prison to try to communicate with their loved one in prison. Is prohibited and they may be suppressing their right to visit if they are discovered.
(c) Gregory Korganow I told the privacy and solitude of these families. I photographed this life where everything seems to await the return of the father, husband or son. Not spectacular picture, just looks and gestures that tell the life side of the prison: Claire who curls in a T-shirt worn by her man, only Chantal, tight in the red room of the court of assizes Nantes, or Christine on the sidewalk shouting words of love to her husband behind bars. I continued this work beyond the film at the visitor center in Rennes and I did portraits. I took pictures of women leaving the parlor. Few minutes to enter on which these silent faces of love but also violence against registered. By observing the faces that stared the lens, I tried to capture this strong bond that unites these women to their family member. It is they who maintain the links. Courageous women who carry on their shoulders that double conviction, that of being loved and that an administration that despises them.
(c) Gregory Korganow listen, watch, is resisting.
Gregory Korganow
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Note the sound designer, Herve Birolini
"Next" has the particularity to be composed of sequences of film and photographic sequences. In this aesthetic fit in sometimes stylish and sometimes realistic, I composed the music of these suites of images. These islands where the viewer can escape the word in action give way to another term, that of confidence.
I used to catch specific sounds, produced during photo shoots. By cutting them into samples, I created a part of my "instrumentarium. Sometimes processed, sometimes rough, sounds come to breathe and rhythm sequences. They bring the temporal dimension of the event which contrasts with the fixity of what we see. Instrumental sounds complement each of these moments by location. The presence of these worlds is sometimes strong and sometimes discreet, but still leaves room for stories and secrets of women and men going through these "bubble" of their vote. However, I consider the voice as a manifestation instrumental in its own right, she worked as an integral part composition. The voice also has a musical role should not be overlooked.
To go further:
In Discipline and Punish (1975), Michel Foucault, seeks to identify the problem of power: those who scored first in irons, the one that encloses and then disappears behind the ubiquity of a look. This look and that monitors constantly lament that we should export outside the prison walls, in the heart of society.
Movies & Documentaries with subject Prison :
Sylvaine Dampierre
A pen.
75 min.
The center is a prison in Rennes prison for women at the heart of the city. This old building, has within its walls, a real garden. It is open to prisoners under the responsibility of the chaplain. This modest garden, makes a break from the stress. The film is anchored to the garden to shoot holes in his prison, the prison from its empty, and because the encounter and exchange are possible.
Women Rennes say that the garden is "the only place in the prison where you do not feel in prison."
Raymond Depardon
Torts Flagrants
knowledge of cinema, 1993, 1:45
The route traced 14 people since their arrest in flagrante delicto up their talk with a lawyer, after they fell from custody Sight deposit, then they have appeared before a prosecutor.
Renaud Victor
Day or night
sl, 1991, 2 times 52 minutes. The prison documentary
Baumettes who can approach the reality of incarceration from the point of view of prisoners as guards.
Odile Kirchner
house arrest.
Paris: National Center for Educational Documentation, 1984, 29 min. Shot in documentary
Remand Bois d'Arcy, with the participation of supervisory staff, this film depicts the everyday life of an inmate incarcerated in detention for receiving stolen property.
Alain Cavalier
Libra me
1994
Marco Becchi
Garage Olimpo
Ocean Films (Argentina), 1999, 1:38. Maria
militates against the Argentine military dictatorship. One morning, she is kidnapped and taken to Garage Olimpo, one of numerous torture of Buenos Aires. In her tormentor, she recognizes Felix, a shy neighbor and love her. Maria must play all out: Felix is his only hope of salvation ...
M. Otero, A. Rojo
No places
Paris: La Sept Video, 1991, 70 min. Documentary
In 1989, the authors met at the prison of Fleury-Merogis, two young prisoners ... From this meeting emerged a remarkable film and hard on the margins of society ...
Sybille Schönemann
The time locked
FRG, Alert-film, 1990, 90 min. Documentary
In 1984, the director Sybille Schoenemann was arrested and imprisoned by the secret service of East Germany. She was exiled in Germany during the summer of 1985. After the fall of the wall, she goes in search of traces at the scene of his degradation.
Raymond Depardon
Incidents.
Betting movies, 1983, 1:48. Documentary
During the summer of 1982, The director has followed the life of a police station in the fifth arrondissement of Paris with the everyday news items such as assaults, fights, suicides ...
Mr. Guffey
But what they are doing in school?
Lille Rectory, nd, 24 min.
Four documentary portraits featured in this documentary that of Jean-Claude, 30, in custody since 9 months, who resumed his studies in prison.
In the palace steps.
Montpellier: Regional Centre of Educational Information, nd, 18 min. Documentary
This video is not a film more justice to explain to high school students.
is the result of work carried out by a high school class who, in a transaction Education / Justice, read, investigated, discussed and written, the news which was the basis for the scenario.
This video also offers to students in activities. The film stops when the protagonists go up the palace steps. Viewers to become judge, year lawyer, witness, thereby various players after themselves read, investigated, discussed the subject.
Daniel KARLIN
Prison Life
Jean Michel CARRE
Women Fleury
1991, 58mn. Production: the film grain of sand
A prison not like on TV. It is big, bright, clean with a garden. An in-depth review of the detention may also which leads to trouble and not to return.
Jean Michel CARRE
Galley women
1993, 90mn. Production: the film grain of sand
Mérogis Fleury is the largest women's prison in Europe. This feature-length documentary traces the portraits of seven women during their detention and their attempts at rehabilitation. Beyond their quest for life and freedom, loneliness, anxiety, difficulties .. Identity and lyrics: a profound reflection on the issue of imprisonment and rehabilitation.
Jean Michel CARRE
Prayers reintegrate
1995, 52mn. Production: the film grain of sand
"Liberated!" When the announcement sounds, there is first the joy out of cell walls out of Fleury-Merogis. Yet what do they find these prisoners, through the symbolic door? The suburbs, the city, the megalopolis and its multiple social violence, psychological and emotional. Prayers reflects attempts to reintegrate young people right out of prison to go to normality, despite all the obstacles they face.
Jean Michel CARRE
The screws
1993, 52mn. Production: the film grain Sandy
Some women voluntarily spend many years in the prison walls: these are the monitors, "maton. Women which is never spoken, except when they protest or go on strike. Portraits tell us about their motivations and their "life in prison."
Bibliography: Reflections on the prison :
MICHAUD (Marie)
Children, parents, prison for maintaining relationships between child and parent inmate.
Fondation de France, 1992, 150 p.
Summary the plight of 80% of prisoners in their capacity as parents and 140,000 children, while stressing the role of parent-child relay that devotes its efforts to maintain parental ties.
Children and prison.
(Foreword Peter Farrar and Michael BOTBOL)
Eshel, 1990, 204 p.
Survey, and reflection papers on child and prison. In 1988, more than 600 children under 16 years and more than 2,500 miners from 16 to 18 years have been the subject of a decision of incarceration in France itself.
International Observatory of Prisons
Prisons, an inventory.
Paris: poltergeist, 2000, 320 p.
The results of a survey conducted by an independent NGO government. After four years of fieldwork, the OIP warns us: we must empty the prisons especially those who have nothing to do with confinement and serves neither the company nor the victim nor the offender .
SALAS (Denis)
third power: to another justice.
Paris: Hachette Literatures, 2000, 252 p.
Denis Sal demonstrates the challenges faced by the broader justice reform launched by Jacques Chirac in 1996 and extended by the report Truche and draft Guiguou Elizabeth in 1997. Taking any setback to the republican tradition, the French justice system continues to depend on the executive to strive to become, with the help of the media, a genuine third power between the people and their representatives.
ATWOOD (Jane Evelyn)
Too many penalties: women in prison.
Albin Michel, 2000, 196 p.
for nine years in forty prisons in nine countries of the world, Jane Atwood has met, interviewed and photographed women in prison. After an exhibition at La Villette in 98-99, it recounts the harsh conditions of detention, the inequality women and men before the judges, the issue of children born in prison, the death penalty ...
Tomasevski (Katarina)
Children in prison with adults.
(translated from English by Dominic LEVEILLE)
Fayard, 1986, 326 p. An international survey
denounces the plight of children in prison.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REHABILITATION
Prison, Release, recurrence. Breaking the Circle: 5 000 volunteers engaged in this.
Paris: National Association of Prison Visitors, nd, 29 p.
The reader will find in the pages of this booklet useful information on associations which all have specific but whose ultimate goal, to break the cycle of crime, is shared by each of them.
RAYNAL (Florence)
Prisons: what alternatives?
Paris: Editions Corlet, nd, non pag. Panoramic This panoramic al
to multiple voice plunges us into an unknown universe.
HYEST (Jean-Jacques), CABANEL (Guy-Pierre)
Prisons: a humiliation for the republic.
Report 449, Volumes 1 and 2 (1999-2000).
Commission of Inquiry SENATE.
Paris: Official Journal, 2000, 784 p. After
five months of investigation which enabled him to make a sixty hearings, visit twenty-eight penal institutions, including four in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, this inquiry gives a first overview the situation of prisons and prison conditions.
The report concludes with a series of thirty proposals for emergency detention houses and in the appendix offers a "Guide inmate's arrival.
CREDOC. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY EVALUATION.
Dubéchot Patrick, Anne Fronteau, Peter Quéau
The prison disrupts the lives of families of prisoners.
Crédoc, nd, 7 p.
Thus the overall composition of music incorporates both the real sounds, voices and instrumental sounds. All orchestrated to bring out the musicality of these places and moments out of time.
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