Studio Baumettes
Synopsis
Based on a simple idea: transforming the enclosed space of the Image and Movement Studio at the Baumettes prison into a photo studio, the director and a group of seven male inmates experience the power of images and encounters when they summon up the past, intimate and shared histories...
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