Examined Life

 

After approaching Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek in a documentary seen at Bafici 2006, Astra Taylor dedicates another doc to gathering up opinions from eight contemporary thinkers. The only instructions they're given is that they talk far from their cloisters, in everyday places that will serve to trigger their opinions. Thus, a park, an airport, a garbage dump, or the interior of a car will be the scenery to these episodes in which academic leaders such as Avital Ronell (author of Crack [...]

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87 min

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