A poetic short film by writer Marvin Wade and animator Evan Bode confronts the contradictions of the U.S. carceral system, where rehabilitation is promised but recidivism is the norm — two-thirds of those released are arrested again within three years. Blending verse and hand-worked animation, the piece reframes incarceration as a counterproductive force and asks what prison is really for. Wade’s conviction that an artist’s purpose is to move the crowd gives the work its quiet, unsettling power.

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