Chain Camera

Documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick gave small portable video cameras to 10 students at John Marshall High School in the upper-middle-class Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, instructing them to film their lives extensively for one week and then pass the cameras on to other students. Out of the hundreds of hours of footage that the students shot of themselves, their friends and their families, Dick selected 16 students' work to make this thematically varied feature.