High School (12A)
Back to school – documentarian Frederick Wiseman shares a lesson in social and moral education.
Wed 24 Jun
18:30
Wed 24 Jun
18:30
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Wed 24 Jun
In his second film, documentarian Frederick Wiseman ventures inside a large city high school – the most everyday of American institutions – where lessons range from debates on existentialism to a simulated space flight.
Assembled with dry humour, High School captures a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents and administrators.
With Wiseman’s usual knack for presenting a clear-eyed vision of complex realities, the film shows how the function of education is steeped in the passing on of social and moral values.
- Director
- Frederick Wiseman
- Duration
- 75 min
- Opening
- Wed 24 Jun
- Year
- 1968
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
Certificate: 12A