Every week on The Rushfield Lunch, I am joined by some of the most interesting artists, thinkers, muckety-mucks and personalities of our times for a live chat where we try to unravel what the hell is going on around here.
My guest today is one of the most fascinating observers of American elites and youth — filmmaker, photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield. Lauren’s most recent project is the Emmy-nominated FX docuseries Social Studies, a terrifying glimpse at the state of our local young people and their relation to social media in the privileged private school corridors of Los Angeles.
“One of the things I love about a lot of my work is that it’s about the social trends and values that affect us all. And one of the things I love about teenagers is their transparency and their honesty in ways that sometimes the adult world is not capable of,” Lauren tells me. “Social Studies is about the first generation that grew up on social media. But it is also about all of us and our relationship to social media and how it divides and distracts and the way it amplifies our wanting to be something other than we are.”
There’s more insight where that came from during our great conversation. Watch above!
