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Tehachapi

Tehachapi

2024•1h 32m•7.6/10
DocumentaryDrama

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7.6/10(21)

French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an enormously ambitious collaboration with the facility’s inmates.

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Production

JRSA, MK Productions, Ciné-Tamaris, Unframed, Quiet

Language

EN

Status

Released

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JR

JR

Self

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