At Berkeley

The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten-campus public education system, is also one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. AT BERKELEY shows major aspects of university life, its intellectual and social mission, its obligation to the state and to larger ideas of higher education, and how the administration makes and implements decisions in collaboration with its various constituencies.

“Frederick Wiseman’s AT BERKELEY isn’t only a study of the contemporary American university, but, like all of the filmmaker’s best documentaries, a wide-ranging inquiry into the larger institutions and contradictions that define life in the United States.” (Andrew Schenker, Slant)

This film is part of FREDERICK WISEMAN: LOOKING FOR CONNECTION, in which ten films by the American master of documentary form the backbone of a programme about communities and third spaces.