Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Time (Motion picture : 2020)

Title:

Time / directed by Garrett Bradley.

Edition:

DVD edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years' worth of Richardson's own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in this film a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family's extraordinary efforts to stay whole.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG-13.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 1109

Criterion collection ; 1109.

Subjects:

Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- Case studies.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- Case studies.

Prisoners' families -- Louisiana -- Case studies.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.