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Alice Through the Looking Lens

Fiction documentary

This documentary fiction tells the story of Alice, an elderly person who believed in political ideals similar to many modern left-leaning discourses. It references Jean Rouch’s Chronicle of a Summer by filming the subject reacting to watching the film itself.

The extract shows Alice reacting to the longer film and discussing its implications for cross-generational political collaboration with younger people. The piece asks: “can older people collaborate with young people in building a better future?” and “what can we learn from each other?”