Wednesdays with Wiseman
The Jacob Burns Film Center is pleased to work with Zipporah Films and mTuckman media to offer three selections from filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s catalog via our Virtual Screening Room in the weeks leading up to the release of his next film, the endlessly fascinating City Hall. Each film in the series will be accompanied by its own pre-recorded conversation with Wiseman and a rotating cast of documentary filmmakers. Every title in Wednesdays with Wiseman will be available for two weeks from their set start date. Additionally, the JBFC is delighted to be offering City Hall in our Virtual Screening Room.
HOSPITAL
Available starting Nov. 4, order a virtual screening now!
1970. 84 m. Frederick Wiseman. Zipporah Films. US. English. NR.
Hospital shows the day-to-day activities in a large urban hospital with particular emphasis on the emergency ward and out-patient clinics.
“The chief characteristic of all Wiseman’s films — and the source of their tremendous emotional impact — is his instinctive sympathy for people who must confront the specific, human effects of vast, impersonal human social forces…” – Richard Schickel, Life
Accompanied by a pre-recorded conversation with Wiseman and filmmakers Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka, Jesus Camp).
