super-max
Crime & Punishment • 13m
Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • 2003 • 13 minutes
"Finn's chilling super-max is a tour of maximum security prisons shot from a moving car, their hulking forms framed by telephone poles and power lines that divide landscape and sky. The concluding voice-over, making reference to Lewis and Clark, implicitly equates the European occupation of this continent with imprisonment." —Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
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