Movie Details
Original Language:English
The Majority Never Has Right on its Side
DirectorEmanuel Almborg
40 min
Plot
The Majority Never Has Right on its Side is a film project about the Summerhill School in England established in 1921 and still open The school is known for its antiauthoritarian educational methods founded on the egalitarian principles of AS Neill a socialist schoolmaster from Scotland often described as a cynical utopian In this project Almborg has been looking at the school today in relation to its image by researching and using the schools film and video archive The idea has been twofold to trace a visual history of a place and to look at what can be described as a utopian image how it might be constructed and what potentials and problems it might encompass
