Public Housing: Frederick Wiseman
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About This Screening
Documentary maverick Frederick Wiseman, a former law professor, has
infamously turned his camera time and again to exposing the multi-faceted ruptures within American institutions. Influenced heavily by the Cinema Verité movement of the 50s, Wiseman works to capture the painful and often overlooked realities of establishments as varied as a Massachusetts psychiatric ward (Titicut Follies) to the daily life of inner-city public education (High School). Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily conflicts between residents and the bureaucratic machinery to which they are continually subjected. With intimate detail and an abiding dedication to his subject, Wiseman unearths the hidden facets of institutions to find humanity and sites of unexpected beauty.
Program Details
Tuesday March 9 + Wednesday March 10
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Public Housing
1998, 16mm, color, sound, 198 min.
Screenings This Season
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Feb. 24
Techniques of the Observer Mar. 9
Public Housing: Frederick Wiseman Mar. 25 + Mar. 27
The Texture of Memory: Phil Soloman Apr. 6 + 7
City Slivers & Fresh Kills: Gordon Matta-Clark Apr. 21 + 22
Near and Far: Two by Johan van der Keuken May. 4
Meditations on Revolution I-V: Robert Fenz May. 20 + 21 + 22
Borderlands: Three by Chantal Akerman