Barstow, California

Structured in a loose way, that almost allows comparisons to John Fahey's spare fingerpicking, like a skeletal blues lost in time, the film observes how life weaves itself in and outside the texture of an American life that the ideology of neo-liberal policies has completely forgotten. The voice of poet and inmate Stanley "Spoon" Jackson, who began serving a life sentence without possibility of parole in 1977 and has since then served time in more than a half dozen California state prisons, reads excerpts from his autobiography By Heart while images of a world suspended drenched in pure American mythology are intercut, drowned in the brutal reality and consequences of ruthless financial politics. BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA is truly the other side of the American dream.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 182264
  • Status Released
  • Released Switzerland April 14, 2018 (French speaking region) United States of America June 5, 2019 (Doc Fest, San Francisco) Germany October 3, 2019
  • Runtime 76 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country Germany
  • Original Language English
  • Production Company Strandfilm-Produktions GmbH
  • Trailers English Trailer | Barstow, California
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  • Box Office Worldwide $0 US $0
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