Public Housing

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his cameras on a housing project that is home to some of the poorest residents living in Chicago's South Side. The film is composed of a series of vignettes that illustrates the daily lives of lower class Chicagoans as they interact with local police officers, social workers and other outsiders. Events range from felony arrests, substance abuse and drug deals to commonplace domestic scenes of tenants and their families. …