We're Alive

We're Alive (1974)

Made jointly by the Women’s Film Workshop and some of the inmates of the California Institution for Women, this is a moving analysis of why the women are in prison, what’s happening to them, what’s to become of them. It begins and ends with film taken outside the walls, while the rest is videotape transferred to film of the prisoners talking about race, sex and religion, class, economics and drugs. Occasionally statistics are inserted, but generally the women show such a degree of articulacy and radical thought that what they have to say is explanation enough. A remarkably undated combination of political anger and collective tenderness.

Date of release
1974-01-01
Runtime
48m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Kathy Levitt, Christine Lesiak, Michie Gleason

Interesting facts

We're Alive is a 1974 American documentary film by UCLA students Michie Gleason, Christine Lesiak and Kathy Levitt.

Production

Made by the Women's Film Workshop alongside the prisoners, most of the documentary was shot on video before it was converted into film.

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