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The cinema has always been attracted to prisons. Today’s prisons are full of video surveillance
cameras. These images are unedited and monotonous; as neither time nor space is compressed,
they are particularly well-suited to conveying the state of inactivity into which prisoners are placed
as a punitive measure. The surveillance cameras show the norm and reckon with the deviations
from it. Clips from films by Genet and Bresson. Here the prison appears as a site of sexual infraction,
a site where human beings must create themselves as people and as workers.
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