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Time Like Zeros is a reference to serving a life sentence in prison that is mentioned by one of eight women prisoners who narrate the film, and it is echoed visually in both the camera movement that encircles the prison and the circles of razor wire that whiz by as the scene moves from the exterior fence to the darkest cells of the prison.

Carol Jacobsen is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work investigates issues of women?s criminalization, human rights and censorship. Her work, sponsored by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other organizations, has been shown worldwide, including at Lincoln Center, New York; Feminist Film Festival in Paris; Centre de Cultural Contemporanea, Barcelona; Temple Gallery, Rome; Beijing, China; Human Rights Watch Film Tour, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Paul Robeson Foundation, Women in Film Foundation, Art Matters, Rockefeller Foundation, and others. Her critical essays on feminism, art and politics have appeared in The New York Law Review, Art in America, Hastings Women?s Law Journal, Social Text, Signs Journal, Exposure, Heresies, and other publications. She is Professor of Art, Women?s Studies and Human Rights at The University of Michigan; and she is represented in New York by Denise Bibro Gallery. She serves as Director of the Michigan Women?s Justice & Clemency Project, www.umich.edu/~clemency a nonprofit, grassroots effort seeking human rights for women prisoners and freedom for women wrongly incarcerated.