Our new podcast launches today! Unmaking the Prison Image is a three-episode podcast series from Visualizing Abolition exploring the role documentary can play in imagining a world without prisons. Hosted by Pooja Rangan, author of Immediations and The Documentary Audit, and co-author with Brett Story of the forthcoming Why Look at Prisons?, the series brings together filmmakers, scholars, and system-impacted artists and organizers who are rethinking how prisons are represented, with an eye toward collective liberation.

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Episodes

Against the Carceral-Entertainment Complex

What About the Rapists and Murderers?

Film Pedagogy as Abolitionist Practice

Introducing Unmaking the Prison Image

Unmaking the Prison Image is a production of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz, directed by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson. Podcast produced by Alex Moore, Louise Leong, and Pooja Rangan. Eric “Maserati E” Abercrombie is our editor and sound designer. 

Theme music for Visualizing Abolition is Pray by Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science. Our cover art features an image from Christopher Harris’s still/here.

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