August 19, 8:45 PM
South Bend Commons, 1799 Lakewood Terrace SE
$10 entry NOTAFLOF. Snacks available for purchase.
Punishment Park is a documentary style thriller drama deals with a group of soldiers leading a group of hippies, nihilists, draft-dodgers, and anti-establishment individuals through the desert as a punishment. Alongside this we flick back and forth to scenes of a tribunal in which defendants have the chance to explain their anti-authority position to the board that sentenced them. As relevant today as it was 43 years ago when it was made. Punishment Park makes the challenges war, the political and justice system, and the American Empire as a whole.
