Art For Teachers Of Children

Teenaged Jennifer (Caitlin Grace McDonnell), a student at a posh boarding school, becomes enmeshed in an erotic relationship with a married photography teacher (Duncan Hannah). Although she's the initiator, their alliance is inevitably colored by inequalities of power, authority, age, and sophistication. Director Jennifer Montgomery fashioned ART FOR TEACHERS OF CHILDREN from the fabric of her own past (her teacher, also a photographer, was later accused of producing child pornography), and the result is a curious film that demands to be read simultaneously as fiction and autobiography. Poised somewhere between filmic diary and therapeutic exercise, it never truly ...