AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW
A film by Ashley Hunt
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And Water Brings Tomorrow looks at closed prisons amidst the climate crisis. Following the community forces behind prison closures and the movement to stop new ones, the film considers what closed prisons have turned into, and the forms of loss and reckoning that their closure and repurposing often fails to address.
While the U.S. is investing billions of dollars in building new prisons and increasing its carceral control over communities, And Water Brings Tomorrow shows what the long fight looks like — a reminder in a time of despair how we think beyond the present crisis and that the movement for abolition is still strong.
The third in a film cycle on today’s abolition movement through the lens of closing prisons, including Ashes Ashes(2020) and Double Time(2022), And Water Brings Tomorrow follows the Close California Prisons Campaign, an interfaith pilgrimage to witness immigrant detention centers, and a campaign to halt a new prison in Appalachian coal country. Woven between site studies of prisons turned museums, tourism hubs and anonymous ruins, this hybrid documentary asks what is reckoned with or erased in each prison’s repurposing, in communities and within the landscape.
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OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN gave us a good start to funding a grassroots tour of And Water Brings Tomorrow, taking it to community organizations working toward prison closure and decarceration around the U.S. Your additional support will allow us to bring capacity to community organizations and pay our small but mighty team for their hard work!
And Water Brings Tomorrow is funded in part by the Art for Justice Fund of the Ford Foundation, and the Visualizing Abolition platform of UC Santa Cruz’ Institute for Arts and Science.