Punishment Park
2019
Computer Files, Websites
1970: the war in Vietnam is escalating. President Nixon has decided on a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia. There is massive public protest in the United States and elsewhere. Nixon declares a state of national emergency, and authorizes Federal authorities, without reference to Congress, to detain persons judged to be "a risk to internal security". In light of the recent controversy surrounding Guantanamo Bay and its questionable egality, pseudo-documentary, PUNISHMENT PARK is as relevant today as it was in 1970 and just as blistering and scathing against the current US and Australian governments in their unlawful treatment of its citizens and others under the guise of homeland security. *"Shot during the post-Kent State "law and order" election of 1970, Punishment Park can seem so outrageous as to verge on camp, but few other movies capture so painfully the rhetoric and desperation of the times." - J. Hoberman, **Village Voice***
Main title:
Author:
Watkins, Peter, film directorArgenziano, Carmen, actorForeman, Kent, actorBoland, Patrick, actorAccent Film Entertainment (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Accent Film Entertainment, 1971.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Accent Film Entertainment in 1971.In English
Performers:
Carmen Argenziano, Kent Foreman, Patrick Boland
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
422038
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/1355865/external-image - Cover Image