Michel Wenzer has scored over 20 films. His cinematic work has been screened and broadcast internationally and received several awards, including Best Documentary at the Guldbagge Awards (2012)Tempo Documentary Award (2012) and Fridegårdspriset (2014). He holds a BA in Contemporary Composition and an MA in Cinematic Expression from the University of Gothenburg.
Together with Fredrik Gran, he forms the composer duo Vento Nero.
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“Welcome to Folsom Prison! You are here at your own risk!”
Early in the film, the crew is met with this warning — Folsom houses some of the most dangerous inmates in the United States, many of them serving life sentences, or more. The stories that slowly unfold are as unsettling as they are moving, and one understands that it must have required trust from both sides for these emotions to emerge. It is with sorrow in one’s heart that we watch the gates of the vast, walled prison complex close after the filmmakers’ visit comes to an end.Stig Björkman
Director
Michel Wenzer previously made a short film about the poet Spoon Jackson, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1978. In “At Night I Fly” we meet him and the other inmates as they attempt to find meaning in their lives, despite knowing they will never leave prison. The film’s title is taken from one of Spoon’s poems:
“Today I died. I died yesterday and tomorrow. At night I fly.”
At Night I Fly is elegantly told, at times claustrophobic prison reportage, and a moving hymn to art.
Fredrik Strage
Dagens Nyheter
