The Jail Time artist Stone captured during the shooting of his video-clip inside the death sentence quarter of the prison of Douala | © Dione Roach
Eto inside the central prison of Douala | © Dione Roach
A concert inside the central prison of Douala | © Dione Roach
Jail Time artists Empereur at the end of a video-clip shoot inside the central prison of Douala. | © Dione Roach
Steve Happi at the end of a shoot inside the the central prison of Douala | © Dione Roach
around incarceration and provide a creative outlet for inmates and a pathway to reinsertion. By combining music, dance, spoken word poetry, theater, and visual effects of the prison’s
interior, the performance confronts the public with the lived experiences of the formerly incarcerated artists and forces a reckoning with the conditions of incarceration.
An original concept by Jail Time Records, with the creative direction of Steve Happi and Dione Roach in collaboration with choreographers Mirjam Gurtner and Melissa Kiefer. The
performance is split into three acts, acted out by formerly incarcerated artists from Jail Time Records non-profit label, and will take viewers through stories of crime, incarceration and
redemption. The project will be conceptualized during a residency in Douala and will premiere at the Goethe-Institut in Yaoundé, before traveling to France in collaboration with
PAM and in Germany with Carhartt Wip.
