MassArt joins The Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theatre, IFFBoston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA), and Somerville Theatre in celebrating renowned Boston-born filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, and offering free screenings of rarely-seen films. These screenings will take place on Saturday, May 10 in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall. 

This event is free but advanced registration is recommended. Seating is limited. 

The Last Letter
Frederick Wiseman, 2002, U.S., 62m
2:30 pm

The Last Letter follows a mother who was locked away in a Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941 as she revisits her life in a last letter to her son, who was safe outside enemy lines. The letter, with its detailed observations of daily life in a ghetto, reveals the fear, courage, frailty, compassion and dignity of this woman as she reviews her life and faces her death.

Wiseman has made 46 films in total, and this is one of just two fiction films in his extensive body of work.