Hem kolektif hem de kişisel inanç ve pratikleri şekillendiren ve meşrulaştıran ideolojinin labirent kalbine bir yolculuk: Slovenyalı filozof ve psikanalist Slavoj Žižek, popüler kültüre karşı bulaşıcı bir heves ve doymak bilmez bir iştahla, sinema tarihinin en önemli filmlerinden birkaçını analiz ederek sinemasal anlatının hakim etik ve siyasi fikirleri güçlendirmeye nasıl yardımcı olduğunu açıklıyor.
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.