Time Freed (Beyond Capture) was developed through a series of workshops with 15 women with lived experience of incarceration. Under the inspired direction of Vancouver artist, Jin-me Yoon, the women designed their individual masks and costumes and worked on a land-based choreography to lend expression to their collective imaginations.

The workshop process culminated in a film production located in Whey-ah-Wichen “faces the wind,” now known as Cates Park, North Vancouver, BC. on Tsleil-Waututh land. There, the women appear as mysterious apparitions who dance and move through the sacred forest, their affirmation of life and freedom, contrasting boldly with the harsh embodiment of industrial capitalism, namely an oil refinery, seen on the opposing shore of the Burrard Inlet. The resulting experimental film resists the objectifying eye of the camera and the punitive logic of carceral systems to free imagination and bodies in time and space.