On the occasion of the exhibition Between Bodies, the Henry and the Northwest Film Forum have partnered to present this film.
For almost fifty years, Donna Haraway — scholar, professor, writer — has been merrily challenging the colonialist and patriarchal underpinnings of orthodox assumptions in gender, science, and trans-species thought. Taking inspiration from feminism, science fiction, environmentalism, and Marxism, in works such as “A Cyborg Manifesto” and Primate Visions, she proposes nothing less than new ways of understanding the world and creating the future.
Director Fabrizio Terranova has fashioned an ideal presentation of Haraway’s history and philosophy. He films her in long takes and spacious frames, granting the audience a full, unfettered perspective on her freewheeling, gesticulating pedagogy. And yet Terranova is too crafty a filmmaker to have made a standard documentary. Throughout, deliberately low-tech green screen and computer graphics effects festoon the screen, subtly manifesting as well as buttressing Haraway’s ideas. His mischievous intelligence is a counterpart to hers, and the result is a film as playfully provocative as Haraway herself.
Description courtesy of Andy Stark.
Screening times:
Thu, Nov 29: 8:00 PM
Fri, Nov 30: 8:00 PM
Sat, Dec 01: 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM
Sun, Dec 02: 7:30 PM
ADMISSION
$12 General Admission; $9 Student/Senior; $7 Henry & NWFF Members
ACCESS
This event is public.
ACCESSIBILITY
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