View from the World
Approaching the Elephant
Directors
Amanda Rose Wilder
Producers
Amanda Rose Wilder
Jay Craven
Robert Greene
Cinematographers
Amanda Rose Wilder
Editors
Robert Greene
Sound
Amanda Rose Wilder
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2014
United States
89 min
Black & White
Approaching the Elephant dives head first into the inaugural year of the Teddy McArdle Free School in New Jersey, where all classes are voluntary and rules are determined by vote – adults and children have an equal say. Wilder is there from the beginning to end of the school year, documenting and observing founder Alex Khost and an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.
Amanda Rose Wilder spent years writing poems, then in the hills of Vermont fell into filmmaking, which led to a B.A. thesis “The Poetic Documentary and the Documentary Poem,” for which she created poetic documentaries and studied the works of poets Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder and Jorie Graham. Approaching the Elephant is her first feature. Wilder has shot as second camera alongside Albert Maysles for Maysles Films, Inc. features and commissioned works. She lives in New York.
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