title: Charleen
text: # Charleen
  
  Charleen is a 1977 observational documentary film directed and shot by Ross McElwee, about his friend and former poetry teacher, Charleen Swansea.
  
  ## Summary
  
  McElwee follows Charleen over a month in her life in North Carolina, where she still teaches poetry and engages in interracial flirtation (to the titillation of her students), and documents her friendship with American poet Ezra Pound.
  
  ## Production
  
  McElwee shot the film as part of his graduate thesis at MIT.
  
  