Teenage
Short film Completed 2014
Director & Writer
Matt Wolf
Doc Society helped with
Development
Runtime: 78 minutes
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Based on a groundbreaking book by the seminal punk journalist Jon Savage, Teenage is an unconventional historical film about youth culture before 1945 - the year the term 'teenage' and its popular associations came into being.
Long Synopsis
The film will use actors to bring to life fascinating teens of the early 20th century - from decadent Flappers and Swing Kids to Nazi Youth and Sub-Debs. Mixing period-blurring Super-8 recreations with actors, a wealth of archival material, historical narration provided by Savage, and a contemporary post-punk soundtrack, Teenage will be a stylishly anachronistic documentary at once a rigorous historical survey and a visually explosive, pop meditation on the eternally cool figure of the teenager.
Crew
Matt Wolf
Director & Writer
Matt Wolf (Director) was recently named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and he is a Guggenheim Fellow. His award-winning documentary Wild Combination, about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell was released worldwide by Plexifilm, and the Sundance Channel, and played in over 60 international festivals and cinemas.
Jon Savage (Writer, Narrator) is the author of Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945. His film and television writing credits include the BAFTA-winning The Brian Epstein Story, and most recently the acclaimed Joy Division. His award-winning book England's Dreaming was the basis for the Arena documentary Punk and Pistols and is widely considered the definitive record of punk.
