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ZIZEK!
Directed
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Astra Taylor
CANADA, USA / 2005 / 71 minutes
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US PREMIERE |
Screening
Times and Venues:
Woodstock Town Hall
10/1/2005, 12:30PM |
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Upstate Films II
10/2/2005, 1:00PM |
$10 |
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ZIZEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even stopping at home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while 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 are ideology, belief, revolution, and love. But Zizek is also unafraid to turn his critical gaze on himself, astutely analyzing his private life for the camera and contemplating his convicted relationship to his growing celebrity.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. |
Astra Taylor was born in 1979 in Canada but spent most of her childhood unschooling in Athens, Georgia. She has taught sociology for the University of Georgia and at SUNY-New Paltz, and her writing has appeared in Salon, The Nation, and Monthly Review. In 2001 she made a short documentary about infant malnutrition in southern Senegal, after which she associate produced PERSONS OF INTEREST (Sundance 2004) about the detention of Arabs and Muslims after 9-11. Astra lived in Lake Hill, NY while she was making ZIZEK!, which was edited in a barn off of Library Lane in Woodstock. |
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Slavoj Zizek |
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Astra Taylor |
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Martina Radwan, Jesse Epstein |
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Laura Hanna |
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Jeremy Barnes |
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ZEITGEIST FILMS |
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ZIZEK!
Zeitgeist Films
Emily Woodburn
(212) 274 1989
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