Prison Art

Name: Prison Art
Director: Gennadi Melkonyan
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1998-10-01

1998 · 42 min · Documentary

This documentary, which features Sergei Parajanov’s heartbreaking letters from prison, explores creativity among inmates and the art born in conditions designed to destroy all traces of selfhood.

Directed by Gennadi Melkonyan

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