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Online doc&talk – Barstow, California
2. March @ 19:00 - 21:30
Online doc&talk – Barstow, California
Sunday, 02.03.2025, 19:00 h
BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA
Director: Rainer Komers, 76 minutes, 2018, English / German UT, Germany / USA
The African-American poet Stanley “Spoon” Jackson was born in 1957 as the second youngest of 15 brothers in Barstow, a small town in California’s Mojave Desert. After a childhood overshadowed by violence, he killed a man in a domestic dispute at the age of 20 – the day he enlisted in the Marines. He was sentenced to life without possibility of parole in a trial with racist overtones. In San Quentin, he attended a writing workshop and played Pozzo in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in a theater performance. From San Quentin he wandered through several Californian “high security” prisons and is now in Solano State Prison.
The film was awarded the ARTE Documentary Film Prize at the Duisburg Film Week. As at screenings in Berlin, Hamburg, Missoula/MT, Münster and Szczecin, Spoon will call us from prison at the Docfilm42 screening on 28.02.25 at 7 pm after the end of the film, talk to us and recite poetry, interrupted by an AI voice: “This call will be monitored and recorded.” and “This call will be terminated in 60 seconds.”
Followed by a discussion with Rainer Komers (director) and Stanley “Spoon” Jackson. Moderation: Angela Zumpe