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 shown include the work of the tenants councils, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school, and after school teenage programs, along with the activities of the city, state, and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing.
Public Housing
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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies
This series is presented with generous support from:
Public Housing
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"Issues that are all too familiar — drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy, the frustrations caused by government red tape — take on new immediacy thanks to the extraordinary intimacy of Mr. Wiseman's working methods."
"For every long-lens shot of men on the corner snorting cocaine, there are shots of chess games, sewing circles and laundry hung lovingly on the line. For every bureaucratese-speaking clerk from CHA, there is a sympathetic plumber or a roach exterminator who can’t do enough for an appreciative tenant.… Wiseman… has an eye for subtle social distinctions."
This film is part of the Frederick Wiseman's America series.
This series is presented with generous support from:
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