Sunday 11 December 2005, 15.00

Frederick Wiseman, USA 1997, 200’

Frederick Wiseman introduces this screening

The Ida B Wells development in Chicago falls within the most densely populated public housing district in the United States. It is a monument to the dehumanising effects of poverty.  Wiseman is unsparing in his direct depiction of life within this environment, and he allows scenes of evictions, teenage pregnancy, illness, cockroaches, drug counselling, police relations, boarded-up buildings and broken glass to speak for themselves, without comment or criticism. By focusing on a select number of residents, Wiseman generates a shocking, compelling immediacy to, and intimacy with, America’s urban poor.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004 exhibition