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Movie Review - 'Herman's House' - Trapped In Solitary, A Prisoner Specs Out A Dream House
A 3-D rendering of Wallace's dream house; Sumell's juxtaposition of the house and Wallace's 6-by-8 prison cell is a statement on the severity of solitary confinement in Louisiana's notorious state penitentiary.
The off-screen protagonist of Herman's House, Herman Wallace, already has a dwelling for his body: a 6-foot-by-8-foot cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka Angola. But the documentary's on-screen protagonist, Jackie Sumell, wants him also to have a place for his soul: a dream house for a man who desperately needs dreams.
— npr.org
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the film's director, Angad Singh Bhalla, presented the story behind the film and a few "architecturally relevant" clips to SOM last week. This is great work that exposes some serious and insidious forms of injustice in our democracy. Bravo to Bhalla et al.
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