Institutions: Early Work of Frederick Wiseman
Around the same time that the French theorist Michel Foucault was publishing books like Discipline and Punish and Madness and Civilization, explicating the ways in which modern societal control was produced and exercised in institutions, Frederick Wiseman’s 16mm camera was documenting the very events and people that made up these spaces of regulation and subjectivization. A 6-film selection of Wiseman’s earliest work, newly restored and available, perhaps will shed concrete light on Foucault’s famous quote “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
High School (1968)
- Sun, Jan 5
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1968
A fly-on-the-wall document of the daily life of a Philadelphia high school during the tumultuous late 1960s. Without...
Law and Order
- Sun, Jan 5
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Frederick Wiseman Run Time: 81 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1969
A raw portrayal of urban policing, capturing Kansas City Police officers as they respond to a variety of...
Hospital (1970)
- Sun, Jan 12
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Director: Frederick Wiseman Run Time: 84 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1970
Inside the bustling wards of New York City’s Metropolitan Hospital Center, Wiseman offers an unvarnished look at the...
Essene
- Sun, Jan 12
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Frederick Wiseman Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1972
Essene explores the contemplative world of a Benedictine monastery. We get immersed in the monks’ daily rituals, prayers,...
Juvenile Court
- Sun, Jan 19
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Frederick Wiseman Run Time: 144 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1973
Within the Memphis Juvenile Court system, Wiseman exposes the complexities and challenges faced by young offenders and the...
Welfare
- Sun, Jan 26
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Frederick Wiseman Run Time: 167 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1975
The inner workings of a New York City welfare center, exposed through candid observations of staff interactions and...