![]() ![]() That is a daily experience when you are an incarcerated family.” They may not hang you from the tree, but the experience itself is just like when they used to hang people - but barely hang them - and leave their feet just tiptoeing around in the mud, so that they’re constantly on their tiptoes fighting for their life. “Instead of using the whip, they use mother time. “This system breaks you apart,” she advises Watts in the film. In that documentary, Fox made a stirring appearance drawing a vivid connection between the prison industrial complex and the legacy of slavery in America. “It became clear that there needed to be a conversation around incarceration that was rooted in the effects of it, that was talking about the issue from a place that was inherently familial - and that was maybe even inherently feminist,” Bradley said of “Alone,” which won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Oscars. ![]() ![]() Like “Time,” “Alone” stemmed from a personal connection to the people Bradley was filming, whom she had befriended while making her first narrative feature, “Below Dreams.” The family focused on forging ahead with a singular goal in mind which the Riches imparted to their sons.įox first met Bradley when she appeared in the filmmaker’s 2017 short documentary “ Alone,” which followed a young woman named Aloné Watts as she weighed the decision to marry her incarcerated boyfriend. Rich had relocated the family to New Orleans and become an entrepreneur, prison abolitionist and public speaker, all the while fighting through legal quagmires in hopes of winning his release. No one, including Fox herself, had ever watched the home videos she’d shot over the years as their sons grew from boys into accomplished young men. It tucks them away and hides them from the rest of the world, and that was not going to happen to my family.”īut 18 years into his sentence Rob had yet to come home. “I wanted to make sure that he would not be forgotten, which is what prison does to families. And we’re going to stay diligent about it until we get it fixed,’” said Fox, whose story and personal archives provide the beating heart of “Time,” which is now streaming on Amazon. “To continue filming was a form of resistance - to say, ‘We messed that up, but we can fix it, and we’re going to. Movies Review: ‘Time,’ a wrenching story of love and injustice, is one of 2020’s great documentariesįox Rich’s 21-year battle to free her husband from incarceration is at the heart of Garrett Bradley’s Sundance prize-winning movie “Time.” And for the next two decades, as she fought steadfastly for his freedom, she kept picking up her camera to film precious moments for him to see one day. Raising their six sons with the help of her mother, she rebuilt her life, working to keep Rob’s memory present as he served a 60-year sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Released after serving 3 ½ years behind bars, Fox set out to keep their young family together and began the long and arduous fight to bring her husband home. Rich, when the Shreveport, La., couple took part in a botched bank robbery that sent both of them and their nephew to prison. That’s because six months after that day, the world came crashing down on the Richardsons, who now go by Fox and Rob G. Now etched in black and white in the new documentary “ Time” from director Garrett Bradley, the moment is both memory and promise, a quiet gesture made epic and totemic by the decades of heartache that followed. Sibil Fox Richardson and Robert Richardson were young newlywed parents in love in 1997 when they snuck a kiss during a car ride as her camcorder rolled on the dashboard, preserving in grainy image the kind of fleeting everyday moment most of us take for granted. ![]()
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