Welfare—Wisemania Film Series
Schedule
Sun, 01 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT
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WELFARE (Frederick Wiseman, 1975, 16mm, 167 mins)In one of his most acclaimed documentaries, Wiseman takes us into New York’s Waverly Welfare Center, capturing its arcane bureaucracy and quiet despair. The film “feels like the real-life, ensemble-cast version of a Kafka novel” (Alissa Wilkinson), as claimants and case-workers navigate the endless paperwork and the psychology of poverty under a fluorescent glare. The result is as enraging as it is heartbreaking. 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
“Wisemania” is a multi-year exploration of the works of documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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