Time

What does the weight of time’s passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, Garrett Bradley’s Academy Award–nominated feature documentary debut traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years’ worth of Richardson’s own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in Time a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family’s extraordinary efforts to stay whole.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 2020
  • 81 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.89:1
  • English
  • Spine #1109

Director-Approved Blu-Ray Special Edition Features

  • New 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • New audio commentary featuring director Garrett Bradley
  • New interview with the film’s protagonists, Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson
  • New conversation between Bradley and critic and author Hilton Als
  • Alone (2017), a short documentary by Bradley, with optional 2021 commentary by the film’s protagonist, Aloné Watts
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • English descriptive audio
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Doreen St. Félix

New cover by Juan Miguel Marin

Purchase Options

Director-Approved Blu-Ray Special Edition Features

  • New 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • New audio commentary featuring director Garrett Bradley
  • New interview with the film’s protagonists, Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson
  • New conversation between Bradley and critic and author Hilton Als
  • Alone (2017), a short documentary by Bradley, with optional 2021 commentary by the film’s protagonist, Aloné Watts
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • English descriptive audio
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Doreen St. Félix

New cover by Juan Miguel Marin

Time
Cast
Sibil Fox Richardson
Robert Richardson
Peggy V. Autrey
Rob G. Richardson
Freedom Fox Richardson
Justus Fox Richardson
Remington B. Richardson
Credits
Director
Garrett Bradley
Producers
Lauren Domino
Kellen Quinn
Garrett Bradley
Editor
Gabriel Rhodes
Executive producers
Laurene Powell Jobs
Davis Guggenheim
Nicole Stott
Rahdi Taylor
Kathleen Lingo
Coexecutive producers
Jonathan Silberberg
Shannon Dill
Coproducer
Dan Janvey
Cinematographers
Zac Manuel
Justin Zweifach
Nisa East
Music by
Jamieson Shaw
Edwin Montgomery
Sound supervisor and rerecording mixer
Zach Howard
Additional cinematography by
Bron Moyi

Current

Time: Time in the Mind
Time: Time in the Mind

Unlike any other prison documentary before it, Garrett Bradley’s masterwork poetically evokes the subjective experience of a family whose lives have been fractured by incarceration.

By Doreen St. Félix