AT NIGHT I FLY

Images from New Folsom, where men at California’s first maximum security prison offer us a glimpse of their world. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes it, “about isolation; about closure of both the mind and the heart; and the spirit.” This intimate documentary shows prisoners, most of them serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to reveal and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom’s “Arts in Corrections” program, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more instances of creativity. At Night I Fly shows the artistic and human journey these men make, as well as the need that fuels it, and the beauty and pain encountered along the way.