ALL DAY

of EVEN Tirtza, GIBSON Justin

UNITED STATES, 2010, 00:33:00

Production : EVEN Tirtza
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Confinement, Relation, storytelling

Summary :
In 2000 Justin Gibson, age 15, was convicted of the murder of his grandmother and was sentenced to life at a Michigan State Correctional Facility.

All-Day is a 3-D animation/experimental documentary video project, made in collaboration with Justin Gibson, and telling his fictional interpretation of the story of his crime and ensuing incarceration. Our aim is to read the experience of captivity within (and against) the overlapping contexts of apathy, apprehension, alienation, and a denial of hope.

Using 3-D animation modeling, and following detailed descriptions of the cell(s) Justin has been locked in over the years, we constructed a site which emulates the physical space within which the story unfolds. Justin’s Cells are door-less boxes inhabited by the videotaped figures of previously convicted individuals, recently released, who are reenacting the different facets of the inmates’ life in prison, as well as their own past experience.

The setting in which the cells are placed or disposed of resembles a landfill, scattered also with various broken remnants from the characters’ past lives. On the outskirts of the landfill, beyond its walls, roam recalled figures from the prisoners’ lives, forever excluded from the site and unavailable to the inmates trapped inside

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