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DONNA HARAWAY: STORY TELLING FOR EARTHLY SURVIVAL directed by Fabrizio Terranova

Feminist thinker and historian of science Donna Haraway is best known as the author of two revolutionary works: the essay The Cyborg Manifesto and the book PRIMATE VISIONS. Both set out to upend well-established common sense categories: breaking down the boundaries among humans, animals, and machines while challenging gender essentialism; and questioning the underlying assumptions of humanity's fascination with primates through a post-colonial lens.

This filmic portrait features Haraway in a playful and engaging exploration of her life, influences, and ideas. Haraway is a passionate and discursive storyteller, and the film is structured around a series of discussions held in her California home, on subjects including capitalism and the anthropocene (a term she uses but finds troubling), science fiction writing as philosophical text, kinship relations, the roles of storytelling and Catholicism in her upbringing, humans and dogs, the suppression of women's writing, the surprisingly fascinating history of orthodontic aesthetics, and the need for new post-colonial and post-patriarchal narratives.

Haraway and filmmaker Fabrizio Terranova (who we hear but don't see) are clearly at ease with each other, giving the conversations a casual, intimate feel, while Terranova makes playful use of green screens to illustrate Haraway's words, or to comment on them. A clever and insightful glimpse into the thought of a major contemporary figure, DONNA HARAWAY generated a rapturous response during a recent preview event here, and were pleased to follow up with these encore screenings!

"An ode to this thinker's expansive mind and life. Besides a heady, speculative journey through theory, politics, sci-fi, and so much else, you get a sense of the deep joy that Haraway takes in all life." GARAGE MAGAZINE, VICE

ENCORE SCREENINGS!
DONNA HARAWAY: STORY TELLING FOR EARTHLY SURVIVAL
Directed by Fabrizio Terranova. 2016, 82 min, digital.
Distributed by Icarus Films; special thanks to Jonathan Miller, Livia Bloom Ingram & Bob Hunter, as well as to the Swiss Institute.
-Fri, April 27 at 8:00, Sat, April 28 at 5:30 & 8:00, and Sun, April 29 at 7:00.