Medicine For Melancholy - Dir. Barry Jenkins
La Mission - Dir. Peter Bratt
La Mission will be screened on Thursday, April 23 at this year's San Francisco Int'l Film Festival.
Examined Life - Dir. Astra Taylor
Synopsis from Bam.org:
"Astra Taylor (Zizek!) follows some of today’s most influential thinkers with unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue’s posh boutiques. Slavoj Zizek questions current beliefs about the environment while sifting through a garbage dump. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco’s Mission District questioning our culture’s fixation and individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America’s best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy’s power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it."
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