A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short film, the film camera captures their soul through these creations.
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Savage Flowers. Small souvenirs from a prison
It's been about thirty years that anthropologist Pierre-Jacques Dusseau gets objects handcrafted by inmates out of the prisons he works in as a psychologist.
Rejected by ethnography museums, these creations are gathering dust in his attic.
Every one of them sheds different light on carceral institution.