NFB Collection
Tiers: A Story of the Penitentiary
198218 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Charles Wilkinson
Production: Don HopkinsGeorge Johnson
Produced by the NFB in cooperation with Solicitor General Canada.
Photographed in the abandoned British Columbian penitentiary, built in 1878 and now closed, Tiers is an impressionistic recreation of life inside an old-style prison. Chilling sound and visual effects plunge the audience into the prison experience. Voices of former inmates and guards, bounced off empty walls, reflect on changes that occurred as the penal system evolved in the sixties and seventies.
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Subject categories
- Law and Crime > Prisons and Prisoners
Credits
- director
- Charles Wilkinson
- sound
- Charles Wilkinson
- producer
- Don Hopkins
- executive producer
- George Johnson
- cinematography
- Tobias Schliessler
- editing
- Cal Shumiatcher
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- narrator
- Norbert Reubsaat
- music
- Jean Piché