Free Vintage Educational film screening at St. Louis International Film Festival
This year’s edition is all about the challenges of being a teenager: parents telling you what to do, other kids pressuring you to take drugs, your body doing really gross stuff. For those of you who still wake up in the middle of the night from bad dreams about missing a test in high school, it’s time to face your fears. For others of you who were in the popular clique, you can learn what adolescence was like for the rest of us normies and burnouts. If, by some chance, you’re actually a teenager right now, well, take the advice from these decades-old films with a grain of salt.
This screening was co-programmed by Charlotte He, a graduate student in WashU’s Film and Media Studies program. According to Charlotte He, “It was a joyful treasure-hunting experience finding educational films from the older times that still resonate with grow-up pains in the present. From pulling out the titles in the vault to inspecting them for screening, I learned the important skills of processing and caring for these 16mm film prints. I hope these wonderful films can take you back in time to once again share the joy and anxiety of being a teenager.”
The screening will take place at the Arkadin Cinema, located at 5228 Gravois Ave., on November 14th at 7 p.m. It is free but ticketed. Reserve yours here: https://sliff.cinemastlouis.org/2024/special_events/rawstock/
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