Space to Breathe

Space to Breathe is an Afrofuturist science fiction hybrid documentary, set in a utopian future where there are no prisons or police.

Space to Breathe is a hybrid of science fiction and documentary. It is a documentary about today's movements to abolish prisons and police from the perspective of the utopian future we are creating. Documentary footage from the 20th and 21st centuries is intercut with future scripted scenes.

All community organizing is science fiction. When organizers imagine a world without poverty, without war, without borders or prisons—that's science fiction. They're moving beyond the boundaries of what is possible or realistic, into the realm of what we are told is impossible. Being able to collectively dream those new worlds means that we can begin to create those new worlds here.