French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an enormously ambitious collaboration with the facility’s inmates.
Direction
JR erases himself to let prisoners become co-directors
Cinematography
Drone shots of murals swallowing concrete walls whole
Editing
Inmates' voices cut over their own footage—no outside narrator
Director
JR
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
FR
