NYC Coworking event - Zizek! Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Astra Taylor
nonecknoel
my good friends at the not an alternative gallery (ie home to brooklyn
coworking) are hosting a very provocative conversation/screening of
Zizek. if you're into exploring the edges of life, i hope you can
attend...
Cheers!
Noel
Hello,
Please join us for a screening of Zizek!, a feature documentary in
which "wild man of theory" Slavoj Zizek obsessively reveals the
invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian
psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture. Never ceasing to
observe the paradoxes that underpin our perception of reality, little
goes untheorized over the course of the film, particularly Zizek's
recurring themes -- ideology, belief, revolution, and love.
Q & A with filmmaker Astra Taylor to follow.
Tuesday, May 15th, 7:30pm
The Change You Want to See
L to Bedford, G to Metropolitan, J/M/Z to Marcy
Havemeyer St, Store Front, Brooklyn NY 11211
(Directions)
SYNOPSIS
The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock,
9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian
philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important—and
outrageous—cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite
documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of
this incomparable academic and writer who has been called everything
from "the Elvis of cultural theory" to "a one person culture mulcher".
Director Astra Taylor follows the charismatic and provocative theorist
from Buenos Aires to New York and then on home to Ljubljana and his
modest apartment, recording his energetic and provocative
psychological observations in lecture halls, restaurants and even in
bed. Erudite and outrageous, mixing innovative animations with
uncensored interviews, "Zizek!" is both an unforgettable lesson in
philosophy and a compelling portrait of an intellectual maverick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizek
http://www.zizekthemovie.com/press/
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Astra Taylor is a writer and documentarian born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
in 1979 and raised in Athens, Georgia. She has been an instructor in
sociology departments at the University of Georgia and State
University of New York, New Paltz where she has taught classes on
social theory, globalization, and the sociology of film. Her writing
has appeared in the Monthly Review, the Nation, and Salon. She was
named one of the 25 New Faces to Watch in independent cinema by
Filmmaker Magazine in the summer of 2006.
"I saw myself as a lion tamer, or a traffic cop, directing the flow of
the conversation. We had 70 hours of footage, and I had to shape it
into one theoretical argument. Ultimately, I focused on the
intersection between psychoanalysis and capitalism, what it means to
live in this society that commands us to enjoy, consume and have wild
sex. I thought that argument would resonate with my generation."