American Minor

American Minor is a meditation on the popular image of the American teen girl. Through carefully created, lingering scenes, the film focuses on the external environment and internal state of a fourteen-year-old, upper-middle-class blonde girl whose world is defined through products, objects, and perpetual consumption. The film observes a single, protracted morning in the life of a picture-perfect American youth lost in the dehumanizing space that wealth, isolation, and fear can provide. By watching this American teen perform basic acts, from eating cereal, to watching television, to combing her hair, the film aims to reveal the complicated relationship between personal pleasure and politics, youth and sexuality, and class and suppression.
CAST
Callie Calva

Charlie White - Charlie White lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His photographs have been exhibited at institutions throughout the world, including the Center for Contemporary Art in Salamanca, Spain; Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen in Linz, Austria; and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, in New York. White is subject of three monographs, and is the Director of the MFA program at the Roski School of FIne Arts at the University of Southern California. American Minor is White’s first film as an artwork.

Screenings:

Fri. Jan 16 9:15 p.m. - STAYT164N Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Sat. Jan 17 7:30 p.m. - STAYT17BE Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Sun. Jan 18 6:30 p.m. - STAYT18DE Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Tue. Jan 20 3:00 p.m. - STAYT20EA Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Thu. Jan 22 9:15 a.m. - STAYT224M Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City