A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. The 25-minute short explores the lived experience of the Xicanindio poet -- imprisonment in the jail machine, community destruction and gentrification in Austin, Texas, and the overwhelming force of culture in sanity and transformation.
Un Trip: raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation is a local public television program presented by Austin PBS
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A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the poem “Un Trip through the Mind Jail”. (26m 13s)
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Un Trip: raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation is a local public television program presented by Austin PBS