An encounter with Simone Weil [videorecording] / a film by Julia Haslett
- Published:
- [Brooklyn, NY] : Line Street Productions, [2010]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2010
- Edition:
- Director's Cut.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 1/2 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Haslett, Julia
- Language Note:
- English and French with English subtitles.
- Summary:
- What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the controversial French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), whose life and work took on this question in a dramatic way. Adopting Weil as her guide through an engaging and profound moral landscape, Julia goes on a journey to understand Weil's loss of faith in revolutionary politics and the spiritual awakening that followed. Driving her obsession with Weil is the interwoven story of suffering within Haslett's own family, her father's suicide when she was 17 and now her older brother's severe depression. When Weil dies from self-starvation at the height of World War II, she is left wondering if death was the logical conclusion to Weil's philosophy and her attempt to share the pain of others?
- Subject(s):
- Note:
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- Creation/Production Credits Note:
- Written, edited and directed: Julia Haslett ; Producers: Fabrizia Galvagno, Klara Grunning-Harris, Julia Haslett, Enrico Rossini Cullen ; Director of Photography: Thomas Torres Cordova ; Editing and Story Consultant: Jonathan Oppenheim ; Composer: Daniel Thomas Davis ; Exectuive Producers: David Menschel, Adam Haslett.
- Participant/Performer Note:
- Soraya Broukhim.
- Technical Details:
- DVD-R, all regions.
- Terms of Use and Reproduction:
- No public performance rights. Classroom instruction and home use permitted.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Arts & Humanities copy: Purchased with funds from the George M. Middlemas Libraries Collections Endowment; 2011.
- Endowment Note:
- George M. Middlemas Libraries Collections Endowment
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