May 1st 2017

Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines: SEVENTEEN

@ UIC Screening Room

400 S Peoria Street, Room 3226, Chicago, IL 60607

Opening Monday, May 1st, from 7PM - 9PM

For its ​grand finale in Spring 2017, ​FILM RESCUE presents​ SEVENTEEN by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines​! High school seniors hurtling toward maturity experience joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also learning a great deal about life, both in and out of school, and not what school officials think they are teaching.

“Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines’ look at a group of teens Muncie teens is by far the most controversial and revealing film of the bunch. It tackles interracial dating, sex, drugs and all of the emotional ups and downs this group of friends experience when facing the end of their senior year of high school. The result is a truly scandalous and shockingly honest piece of work that immediately reminded me of the films of Harmony Korine and Larry Clark.” — Jay C, The Documentary Blog

“One of the best and most scarifying reports on American life to be seen… it has the characters and language – as well as the vitality and honesty… haunts the memory.” — The New York Times

“Seventeen is better than realistic. It’s moral: it presents teenagers in a racial, political context more meaningful than just sex-drugs-rock’n’roll. A wonderful film.” — Film Comment

“One thing is for sure: Seventeen is without a doubt one of the greatest movies, perhaps the greatest, about teenage life (not to mention American life) ever made.” — SF360

Winner Grand Jury Prize Documentary, 1985 Sundance Film Festival

Program Details:
Seventeen, ​1983, Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, color, sound, 118 minutes

​​Programmed by Lorenzo Gattorna
16mm prints courtesy of the UIC Daley Library

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