Prisoner’s Cinema

After prolonged incarceration and sensory deprivation, some prisoners experience visual hallucinations filled with extraordinary luminescence and color—visions sometimes referred to as “prisoner’s cinema.” Drawing on the writings of Puerto Rican artist and author Elizam Escobar—who served nineteen years in U.S. prisons for the crime of seditious conspiracy—Beatriz Santiago Muñoz creates the film that might have been imagined by Escobar during his incarceration.