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Documentary

Welfare

January 15 at 7pm

At Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley

Nearly 3 hours, settle in

Frederick Wiseman's observational masterpiece drops you inside a NYC welfare center for 167 minutes of bureaucratic chaos. His editing finds subtle rhythms in the tension between caseworkers and clients, resignation and rage.

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