Film: High School

Thu Sep 18 , 7 – 8:30 pm

Hosted by Yale Film Archive
Details HIGH SCHOOL (Frederick Wiseman, 1968, 16mm, 75 mins)
Structured as a typical day at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School, Wiseman’s second film is ​“savagely comic” (David Denby) as it excoriates the conformity enforced through public education in the era. (“I didn’t mean to be individualistic,” one student apologizes.) This observational exploration of a clash between generations struggling for control is ​“filthy with the kind of revealing behavior a documentarian can only hope and pray to capture on camera” (A.A. Dowd). 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

​“Wisemania” is a multi-year exploration of the works of documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
Admission FREE
Location Yale Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
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