Inquiring Nuns (1968)

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

Directed by: Gordon Quinn

Cast: " a custom-modified crystal sync Auricon with a used manual zoom lens Quinn purchased from Albert Maysles, "Are you happy?" They meet a variety of individuals ranging from hippie musicians to intellectuals, and to which he added a World War II gunner handle bought from a pawn shop as an extra grip for steadiness, Mary Campion, Sister Marie Arné, Sister Mary Campion, Stepin Fetchit, Temaner had watched at Doc Films while they were undergraduates at the University of Chicago. The film was shot on Kartemquin's "Camera #1, two young Catholic nuns who visit a variety of Chicago locales to ask people the question, which Quinn, whose responses are everything from the mundane to the spiritual. The film was directly influenced by Jean Rouch's Chronique d'un +

Genres: Documentary, History

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