About the film

In “At Night I Fly” men at one of California’s most maximum security prisons let us see their world. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes, “about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the hart and the spirit”. This intimate documentary shows prisoners, most serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to uncover and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom’s Arts in Corrections’ room, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more scenes of creation. „At Night I Fly” shows the artistic and human journey these men take, as well as the need that fuels it, and the beauty and pain encountered along the way.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2011 - IDFA/ International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2011 - Film Fest Monachium/ FilmFest München, 2012 - Guldbagge Award, nagroda Szwedzkiego Instytutu Filmowego dla najlepszego filmu dokumentalnego/ Guldbagge Award for the Best Documentary