Sentimental Educations: Barbara Loden’s Classroom Films

The Frontier Experience

USA 1975. Director Barbara Loden. 25min. 16mm

The Boy Who Liked Deer

USA 1975. Director Barbara Loden. 18min. 16mm

The Fur Coat Club

USA 1973. Director Joan Micklin Silver. 18min. Digital

The Case of the Elevator Duck

USA 1974. Director Joan Micklin Silver. 17min. Digital

Wanda was not Loden’s only film: she made two 16mm educational shorts. The Frontier Experience draws on the 1860s diaries of frontierswoman Delilah Fowler on the Kansan plains (scripted by Joan Micklin Silver). The Boy Who Liked Deer, a film concerning boyhood emotions and anti-sociality, was scripted by novelist Dinitia McCarthy. They screen alongside Silver’s educational shorts.

Contains scenes of animals dying.

The Frontier Experience and The Boy Who Liked Deer will be also screened as part of the Barbara Loden Symposium.