Search results for "Slavoj Žižek"

Balkan Spirit (2013)

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit". (more)

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DIRECTION: Hermann Vaske

CAST: Marina Abramovic • Eleni Angelopoulos • Adrian Botan • Osman Bozkurt

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) RT 92% / Audience 78%

Brainy Brilliant Boring Clever

DVD release: Feb 2014

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes reunites for this follow-up to their hit The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, using their interpretation of moving pictures to ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Sophie Fiennes

CAST: Slavoj Žižek

Examined Life (2008) RT 77% / Audience 73%

DVD release: Feb 2010

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 ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Astra Taylor

CAST: Cornel West • Judith Butler • Slavoj Žižek • Peter Singer

The Reality of the Virtual (2004)

In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Ben Wright

CAST: Slavoj Žižek

Predictions of Fire (1996)

A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach', 'Irwin', and 'Red Pilot'. (more)

GENRES: Documentary • Music

DIRECTION: Michael Benson

CAST: Slavoj Žižek • Laibach • Peter Mlakar

Risk (2017)

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Laura Poitras

CAST: Julian Assange • Sarah Harrison • Jacob Appelbaum • Joseph Farrell

Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)

The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston, We Have a ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Žiga Virc

CAST: Josip Broz Tito • Slavoj Žižek • John F. Kennedy • Richard Nixon

There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People (2013)

From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differences are not only ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Urša Menart

CAST: Marcel Štefančič, Jr. • Borut Mehle • Ervin Hladnik Milharčič • Igor Vidmar

Catastroika (2012)

They travel round the world gathering data on privatization in developed countries and search for clues on the day after Greece’s massive privatization program. (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Katerina Kitidi • Aris Chatzistefanou

CAST: Dean Baker • Alex Callinicos • Costas Douzinas • Ben Fine

The New Man (2016)

A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo ... (more)