GIMME SOME TRUTH: Chain Camera
Sun Nov 9, 2008 at 12:00 PM
CHAIN CAMERA
Dir. Kirby Dick | USA 2001 | 90 min.
Sunday, Nov. 8 | NOON
IN PERSON: DIRECTOR KIRBY DICK
In August 1999 an experiment in documentary filmmaking began. Ten students at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles were given video cameras to film their lives. There were no limitations on what they could shoot. After one week, the cameras were given to ten new students, who filmed their lives for a week, then handed the cameras on. Like chain letters, these cameras were passed from student to student for an entire year. Chain Camera is the profound vision of young America told through the stories captured by these cameras. “A hilarious, unnerving and remarkably intimate portrait of adolescent life that lends vigorous new meaning to the term ‘teen movie’. (LA Weekly)
This Chain Camera screening will be followed by a Chain Camera workshop in the Winnipeg Film Group's studio, in collaboration with Spence St. Neighbourhood House.