Rising Expectations: Northwestern University #2 / When I First... / #3 South Africa Demonstration
Identifier
F.2021-04-0008
Date Of Production
circa 1980 – 1983
Abstract
A unedited portion of Chuck Kleinhans' unfinished diary film, Rising Expectations.
Description
This reel begins with Chuck Kleinhans interviewing an undergraduate student at Northwestern about his experience at the school. He then films a newspaper article about Julia Lesage being denied a full-time faculty position at the school, ostensibly because of her Marxist politics. Chuck then speaks to the camera about Northwestern's Radio/Television/Film Department (while wearing a t-shirt for Jump Cut, the film journal he co-created).
Kleinhans then films a 1981 demonstration on Northwestern's campus, in which students and faculty protest a Ford Foundation/Northwestern–sponsored conference on United States policy in South Africa because it lacks anti-apartheid voices. Demonstrators hold signs reading "Smash Racist Apartheid - Divest Now" and chant slogans such as "No Whitewashed Conference!" Chuck then turns his Super-8 camera to some of the conference attendees at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.
Next, Chuck speaks to an off-camera JoAnn Elam about how faculty salaries work at Northwestern while sitting at a kitchen table. The film concludes with Lesage receiving a letter from the Super 8 Workshop of the Center for Sandinist Workers inviting her to show her videos and give some talks in Nicaragua.
Kleinhans then films a 1981 demonstration on Northwestern's campus, in which students and faculty protest a Ford Foundation/Northwestern–sponsored conference on United States policy in South Africa because it lacks anti-apartheid voices. Demonstrators hold signs reading "Smash Racist Apartheid - Divest Now" and chant slogans such as "No Whitewashed Conference!" Chuck then turns his Super-8 camera to some of the conference attendees at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.
Next, Chuck speaks to an off-camera JoAnn Elam about how faculty salaries work at Northwestern while sitting at a kitchen table. The film concludes with Lesage receiving a letter from the Super 8 Workshop of the Center for Sandinist Workers inviting her to show her videos and give some talks in Nicaragua.
Format
Super 8
Extent
400 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Reversal Positives
Genre
Form
Subject
Preservation Sponsor
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Related Collections
Related Places
Main Credits
Kleinhans, Chuck (is filmmaker)
Participants And Performers
Kleinhans, Chuck (is participant)
Elam, JoAnn (is participant)
Lesage, Julia (is participant)
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