Seventeen

The documentary follows the final year of a high school in Muncie, Indiana. The students are in their graduating year and their lives have sped up. The film records how they are at school and away from it. Joy, anger and a sense of hurry all sit together. The account shows the gap between what the school authorities think they are teaching and what is actually learned. Race, and relationships between young people of different races, are inside the record as well. A student named Lynn Massie is at the centre of the film. Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines’s American documentary, a hundred and twenty minutes long, was completed in 1983.