Turner Prize-nominee Phil Collins invites us into New York’s ‘Bring Down The Walls’ project, an anti-incarceration movement that uses house music to fight for social justice.
Born out of Chicago’s post-disco underground club scene in the early 1980s, house music has a longstanding history as a voice for repressed and marginalised communities across America. More than thirty years later, collectives in New York are continuing to use the dance floor as a transformative space of connection and liberation to bring down the physical walls of the prison–industrial complex. This is a discursive and celebratory story of personal and collective liberation, as told by the people who have experienced the injustice of the prison system firsthand.
Australian Premiere
Details
| Year: | 2020 |
| Classification: | Ages 15+ |
| Country: | USA and Germany |
| Language: | English |
| Director: | Phil Collins |
| Producer: | Siniša Mitrović |
| Cast: | Bianca Van Heydorn, Pilar Maschi, Pedro Collazo |
| Script: | Phil Collins |
| Program strand: | Release |
| Rights: | Shady Lane Productions |