Examined Life

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets as filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.

Screening followed by a Q&A with Astra Taylor.

Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She has taught classes on social theory, globalization, and the sociology of film at the University of Georgia and State University of New York, New Paltz. Her writing has appeared in the Monthly Review, The Nation, Adbusters, Salon, and other outlets. Her film work includes The Miracle Tree: Moringa Oleifera and Persons of Interest, which was an official selection at the 2004 Sundance, Rotterdam, and Human Rights Watch film festivals and won the Amnesty International Humanitarian Award at the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival. Astra then directed Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most famous philosopher. It premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, is distributed in North America by Zeitgeist Films and the Institute for Contemporary Art in the UK, and was broadcast on the Sundance Channel. One of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces to Watch” of 2006, Astra currently runs Hidden Driver Productions with Laura Hanna, which specializes in intellectual, cultural and political issues.

Presented by DCTV & Shooting People.

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