<a href="https://watch.eventive.org/utahfilmcenter/play/6089cd06a2d7b20059e0f630/60ad397cbcdaca00555bf612" target="_blank">Don't forget to join us on Thursday, May 27th @ 7pm for live post-film discussion with KUER RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio and guests.</a> Due to the length of this film, the distributor has allowed all viewers 72 hours to watch the film after starting it.

City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted these necessary services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing of various professional activities, record keeping of birth, marriage, and death as wells as hundreds of other activities that support Boston residents and visitors. City Hall, by Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by Boston city government to provide these services. The film also illustrates the variety of ways the city administration enters into civil discourse with the citizens of Boston. Mayor Walsh and his administration are presented addressing a number of their policy priorities which include racial justice, affordable housing, climate action, and homeless. City Hall shows a city government successfully offering a wide variety of services to a diverse population. "Essential viewing. Frederick Wiseman is American cinema’s foremost sociological auteur. Even at the age of 90, Wiseman continues to churn out non-fiction gems like no other, and that definitely holds true with regards to his latest,&nbsp;CITY&nbsp;HALL… a sprawling panorama of government and community work… Proves a celebration of the power of storytelling to unite—and, also, a masterful example of it." –Nick Schager, Daily Beast "America would be a better place if everyone watched… exhilarating… a rich tapestry of Boston in argument with itself. A vibrant half-day hangout with democracy in action." –David Ehrlich, IndieWire "Wiseman returns to the kind of vibrant, diverse, urban, East Coast community he charted in EX&nbsp;LIBRIS&nbsp;or&nbsp;JACKSON&nbsp;HEIGHTS, and the energy is palpable… probably Wiseman’s most topical documentary to date." –Lee Marshall, Screen International "Formidable and incisive… engrossing."–Keith Uhlich, SLANT "Critic’s Pick. Magisterial… An exploration of civil society and the common good… Wiseman has answered that laugh line (‘The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help’ – Ronald Reagan) and its cruelty with a titanic body of work that – meeting by meeting, institution by institution – serves as a powerful refutation. His is the art of resistance at its finest." –Manohla Dargis, The New York Times "Serenely and thrillingly observant… [Wiseman] turns bureaucratic procedure into a kind of poetry, and finds both comedy and profundity in the banal idioms of governance.&nbsp;CITY&nbsp;HALL&nbsp;also provides a powerful and precise account of what democracy looks like beyond the rhetoric of campaigns." –A. O. Scott, The New York Times

CITY HALL

Explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action, and more

Recorded live on May 27: Post-film discussion with non-fiction filmmaker and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Utah Emelie Mahdavian, moderated by KUER RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio. Emelie Mahdavian is an Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance Special Jury Prize award-winning documentary filmmaker who produced, wrote, and edited Midnight Traveler (2019). Her first feature documentary After the Curtain premiered at Lincoln Center as part of the 44th Dance on Camera series

City Hall Post-film discussion with filmmaker Emelie Mahdavian

Post-film discussion with non-fiction filmmaker and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Utah Emelie Mahdavian, moderated by KUER RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

Recorded post-film conversation with director Fredrick Wiseman, former Mayor of Boston and current Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and moderated by Jon Abbott of GBH Boston.

Conversation: City Hall A Look Behind the Scenes of City Government

Recorded post-film conversation with director Fredrick Wiseman, former Mayor of Boston and current Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and moderated by Jon Abbott of GBH Boston.

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