Charleen is an observational
documentary film directed and shot by
Ross McElwee, about his friend and former poetry teacher,
Charleen Swansea[?]. McElwee follows Charleen over a month in her life in
North Carolina, where she still teaches poetry, engages in interracial flirtation (to the titillation of her students), and prepares to sell a personal letter from
Ezra Pound in which Pound bemoans Charleen's impending
marriage.
McElwee shot the film as part of his graduate thesis at MIT, where he studied under Richard Leacock[?] and Edward Pincus[?]. The film is 59 minutes long.