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Prison Valley is a web-documentary in production right now by Frenchmen David Dufresne and Philippe Brault. It looks at Colorado’s prison towns during the recent recession.

Avec une gestion privée des établissements, les Etats-Unis ont inventé une industrie. Prison Valley, web-docu de David Dufresne et Philippe Brault , produit par Upian, est un voyage au coeur de la fière industrie carcérale. Ci-dessous, la première bande -annonce du film.

Les journalistes Philippe Brault et David Dufresne ont réalisé un webdocumentaire intitulé Prison Valley, sur le mode du précédent Gaza/Sderot, et il sera bientôt sur le site d'Arte. On peut déjà en découvrir la bande-annonce: «quelques instants, tournés lors de nos premiers repérages en juin» explique Dufresne sur son blog.

Rebecca Duclos and David K. Ross have engaged in a multi-disciplinary, research and site-based practice since 1998. Their work is primarily characterized by its investigations into the literal and metaphorical aspects of storage, the construction of social and manufactured spaces, and the inscription/invention of histories, both written and illustrated.

Their collaborative and individual interests have included architectural propositions, photographic and digital video projects, and critical writing. Duclos and Ross consider all aspects of their projects—from pure research, to the rejuvenation of found materials and overlooked histories, to collaborations with other artists, students and designers—as critical to their work.

ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.

“A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism. You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.”

So wrote David Greene in a poem published in the first issue of Archigram magazine or, as Greene’s co-editor, Peter Cook, called it “a message, or abstract communication”. It was published in 1961 on a large sheet of the cheapest available paper. Filled with Greene’s poems and sketches of architectural projects designed by Cook, Michael ‘Spider’ Webb and other friends, the magazine voiced their frustration with the intellectual conservatism of the British architectural establishment.

Prison Valley est un webdocumentaire de David Dufresne et Philippe Brault sur l’industrie de la prison dans une Amérique en crise. Une plongée dans ce qui pourrait bien être le monde futur.

David Dufresne prépare en ce moment un webdocumentaire sur l’industrie des prisons en Amérique, Prison Valley avec le photographe Philippe Brault, produit par Upian.