Unmaking the Prison Image

What happens when entertainment joins forces with law enforcement? Who gets hurt, and who--or what--evades accountability?  In Episode 3 of Unmaking the Prison Image , host Pooja Rangan is joined by filmmaker Davit Osit, critical criminologist Michelle Brown, and formerly incarcerated policy advocate and founder of America on Trial, Inc. Vidal Guzman to discuss the social costs of carceral enterta...

This episode includes discussion of rape and sexual violence. We recognize that these topics may be difficult or distressing for some listeners, so please take care while listening and feel free to pause or step away at any time. What happens when abolition meets its most common objection? In Episode 2 of Unmaking the Prison Image , host Pooja Rangan brings together curator and scholar Rachel Nels...

What does it mean to learn filmmaking as a practice of abolition? In this first episode of Unmaking the Prison Image , host Pooja Rangan speaks with filmmakers and educators Christopher Harris, Brett Story, and Thanh Tran about how documentary shapes what we think we know about prisons, and how filmmaking can help us unlearn those assumptions. The conversation traces how media literacy becomes a f...

Welcome to Unmaking the Prison Image, a three-episode series exploring the role documentary film can play in imagining a world without prisons. Host Pooja Rangan speaks with filmmakers, scholars, and system-impacted artists and organizers who are rethinking the role documentary plays in shaping how we see, and imagine, prisons. Unmaking the Prison Image is a production of Visualizing Abolition , a...