The Task

Director: Leigh Ledare

2017 / 118min / DCP

Inspired by an experimental social psychology technique developed at London’s Tavistock Institute in the 1950s, Leigh invited 28 different Chicagoans from all walks of life and 10 psychologists trained in the method to participate in a three-day Group Relations conference, in which the group would be filmed while engaged in the task of studying themselves and their own interpersonal dynamics. An audacious and often very funny experiment in filmed self-analysis.

Q&A with director Leigh Ledare, moderated by Benjamin Piekut, cultural historian (Cornell University)