Man Skin, Boy Mask (2026)
A Project Mend Production - Upcoming
Collaborations with Project Mend
I am excited to be working with Project Mend on a planned series of collaborative short films, adapting the published writing of prison-impacted authors.
Through handcrafted animation, editing, and sound design, I introduce expressive audiovisual accompaniment to existing texts in conversation with the writers, centering their stories as told in their own words and sharing their voices for a wider audience through the medium of film.
Project Mend is a multimodal, grassroots-level, open-access national archive centered on the creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their communities.
Learn more at project-mend.net
More about Mend
Project Mend focuses on writing and publishing as a means by which formerly incarcerated individuals and their families can reimagine themselves, their communities, and their futures. Self-expression through writing holds a potential for the transformation of not only those who create, but for those who may read the published works.
The initiative consists of two parts: Mend Syracuse, a publishing apprenticeship for systems-impacted people and Mend, a journal featuring the works of anyone impacted by mass incarceration. Both components concern the power of writing to bring about change, exploring how individuals learn to write themselves into new identities and new lives.
Project Mend is made possible through collaboration with the Center for Community Alternatives and through an HNY Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership, which is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and the CNY Humanities Corridor. Additionally, the project has been supported at Syracuse University by the Engaged Humanities Network, the Humanities Center, the SOURCE, Syracuse University Libraries, and the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition.
For more information, visit project-mend.net or contact Patrick W. Berry at mendthejournal@gmail.com