Between childhood and adulthood sat an age that
needed to be invented—an age of boy scouts and
soldiers in training; an age where you were free to party
in pearls, swing in heels and cause a scene in your best
zoot suit without the responsibilities of adulthood; an
age not yet defined but waiting to be born. Using Jon
Savage's highly acclaimed book as source material,
filmmaker Matt Wolf creates a visual collaborative
guide to Savage’s historic exploration of adolescence
in Teenage. Blending expansive archival footage and
vintage photographs with 16mm recreations, the film
transforms the accounts of these times into anecdotal
portraits, giving a sense of growing up in these moments
directly alongside evolving youth culture. This is the
story of those who constantly define cool, the rebels,
the future leaders and the ones in between trying to find
their way, who all have one thing in common: they're
teenagers. Gabor Pertic, Hot Docs
Director Matt Wolf will participate in a Skype Q&A on May 15, at 6:30 p.m.