Seventeen
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, both in and out of school, that is often quite different from what school officials think they are teaching.
Curated and presented by filmmaker Nellie Kluz as part of DELLS NATION: A trio of movies – Slacker (1990), Seventeen (1983) and Mai's America (2002) – about young people cruising around, comparing notes, and making their own scenes in small-city America.
In the contained bubble-worlds of these films, adolescent energy powers philosophical theorizing, devastating culture clashes, and epic social collisions. Across decades and regions, characters grapple with the collective coming-of-age question: "what do people do around here?"
Dir. Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, United Kingdom, 1982, 120 min.
Special thanks to Bob Hunter at Icarus Films
All sales are final and tickets are nonrefundable.
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, both in and out of school, that is often quite different from what school officials think they are teaching.
Curated and presented by filmmaker Nellie Kluz as part of DELLS NATION: A trio of movies – Slacker (1990), Seventeen (1983) and Mai's America (2002) – about young people cruising around, comparing notes, and making their own scenes in small-city America.
In the contained bubble-worlds of these films, adolescent energy powers philosophical theorizing, devastating culture clashes, and epic social collisions. Across decades and regions, characters grapple with the collective coming-of-age question: "what do people do around here?"
Dir. Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, United Kingdom, 1982, 120 min.
Special thanks to Bob Hunter at Icarus Films
All sales are final and tickets are nonrefundable.
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, both in and out of school, that is often quite different from what school officials think they are teaching.
Curated and presented by filmmaker Nellie Kluz as part of DELLS NATION: A trio of movies – Slacker (1990), Seventeen (1983) and Mai's America (2002) – about young people cruising around, comparing notes, and making their own scenes in small-city America.
In the contained bubble-worlds of these films, adolescent energy powers philosophical theorizing, devastating culture clashes, and epic social collisions. Across decades and regions, characters grapple with the collective coming-of-age question: "what do people do around here?"
Dir. Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, United Kingdom, 1982, 120 min.
Special thanks to Bob Hunter at Icarus Films
All sales are final and tickets are nonrefundable.