Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. 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.
Julia is a young transgender woman who left her home country of Lithuania. Now living in Germany, she walks the streets of Berlin, working as a prostitute to survive.
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France.
McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial.
In the macho world of Mariachi music, very few women can hold their own. Just like the songs they play, this film is a snapshot of life, death and the things in between - seen from a bird's-eye perspective.
Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse.
Chronicles the largest rape tribunal in Congo's history, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of its women and the unshakable strength of the human spirit.
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Examined Life (2008) Trailer
Examined Life.
EXAMINED LIFE: TRAILER
A film by Astra Taylor An intimate accessible engaging conversation with some of the greatest minds of our era. EXAMINED LIFE aspires to convey the sense of ...
Slavoj Žižek in Examined Life (2008) -- English subtitled
Slavoj Žižek in Examined Life (2008) -- English subtitled.
The Examined Life Teaser Trailer
A teaser for the web-based series "The Examined Life" in which college students ask philosophical questions. The series was created as part of an introductory ...
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next time you spend maybe you'll think twice abotu what you'd rather be a consumer or a superhero.
EXAMINED LIFE - official US trailer
From the director of ZIZEK! comes EXAMINED LIFE a film by Astra Taylor. For more information visit
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