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PMA Films: "Frederick Wiseman, Restored": High School (1968)

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


‘High School’ is a sinister and very shrewd portrait of the American pursuit of mediocrity, a film of almost Nabokovian wit.
— David Denby, New York Review of Books

75 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Frederick Wiseman. In English. DCP.

High School was filmed at a large urban high school in Philadelphia. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on "facts" but also transmits social values from one generation to another. High School presents a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents, and administrators through which the ideology and values of the school emerge.

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