Chain Camera

Name: Chain Camera
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 22, 2001
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 68

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Cowboy Booking International | Release Date: June 22, 2001

Summary: Ten students at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles were given video cameras to film their lives. There were no limitations on what they could shoot. After one week, the cameras were given to ten new students, who filmed their lives for a week, then handed the cameras on. Like chain letters, these cameras were passed from student toTen students at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles were given video cameras to film their lives. There were no limitations on what they could shoot. After one week, the cameras were given to ten new students, who filmed their lives for a week, then handed the cameras on. Like chain letters, these cameras were passed from student to student for an entire year. (FilmNoir Post Productions)… Expand

Director: Kirby Dick

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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Scott Tobias

By turns playful, harrowing, intensely moving, and uproariously funny, Chain Camera cuts away all documentary artifice and goes straight to the source, allowing these kids to reveal themselves with the utmost directness and candor. Read full review

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

The results are far more real than MTV's The Real World. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Hilarious, unnerving and remarkably intimate portrait of multiethnic adolescent life that lends vigorous new meaning to the term "teen movie." Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

Guaranteed to jolt viewers of a Norman Rockwell mentality well into the 21st century. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

What's surprising is how bright and engaging these kids are, and for once you're left wanting more. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

Filtered through tears, laughter and affection, the results -- are touching and fascinating though, by their nature unilluminated by dispassionate analysis. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Often tedious, sometimes fascinating anthology. Read full review

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