Event

At Berkeley

Dec 06 - Dec 12

(Frederick Wiseman, United States, 2013, 244 min)

Friday, Dec 06 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Dec 07 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Dec 08 at 07:00PM
Monday, Dec 09 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Dec 10 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Dec 11 at 07:00PM
Thursday, Dec 12 at 07:00PM

Frederick Wiseman's X-ray portraits of complex worlds like zoos, high schools, emergency rooms and ballet companies have, over 45 years, produced a thrilling and labyrinthine portrait of life as collectively lived in institutional worlds. Now in his 80th decade, Wiseman has turned his gaze on the microcosm of the world that is a large college campus.

In At Berkeley, Wiseman turns his lens on the eponymous University of California campus, a place that led the student radicalism movement of the 1960s, and whose present reputation includes a high rank among research schools and severe challenges due to recent state budget cuts. Over four hours, Wiseman immerses us in the world of the university, including perspectives from students, faculty and administrators, giving us a living, breathing feel for the texture of everyday life in academia (filmed at a point in history where the everyday has become itself a subject of increasing fascination for academic study).