The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Public Housing (4K Restoration)
Opens May 1, 2025
The Films of Frederick Wiseman | Presented by SIFF and The Beacon
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his cameras on a housing project that is home to some of the poorest residents living in Chicago's South Side.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. Events shows include the work of the tenants council, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school and after school teenage programs and the activities of the city, state and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing.
- Director: Frederick Wiseman
- Country: USA
- Year: 1997
- Running Time: 200 min.
- Producer: Frederick Wiseman
- Cinematographers: John Davey
- Editors: Frederick Wiseman
- Filmography: Titicut Follies (1967), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Juvenile Court (1973), Primate (1974), Welfare (1975), National Gallery (2014), In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: mTuckman media, inc.