Conversation with sophie fiennes, director of the perverts guide of cinema. If you enjoyed the former, youre gonna love the latter which is every bit as filmoriented even as it tackles. Filmgoers are bored with being talked down to documentarymaker sophie fiennes s latest philosophical quest with slavoj zizek presents another thrilling challenge for. Originally published on november 9, 2012, this interview with sophie fiennes is being reposted in advance of the opening of this picture at new yorks ifc center on friday, november 1. Sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema is a thrilling ride. Fiennes and zizek released a followup, the perverts guide to ideology on 15 november 2012. The following is a transcript from the above excerpt from my favorite part of the perverts guide to ideology, the 2012 british documentary featuring everyones favorite slovene philosopher and psychoanalyst, slavoj zizek, and which was directed by sophie fiennes of the joseph and ralph fiennes clan. Visitors of subtitlesbank have given a rating of 7. That philosopherfilm criticpolitical theoristculture maven theologistpsychoanalyst have i left something out. The perverts guide to ideology 2012 directed by sophie. This paper will explore a very intense documentary directed by sophie fiennes and written by slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek. Slavoj zizek and sophie fiennes team up for a second documentary where film, politics and philosophy cross paths. Watch the perverts guide to ideology online vimeo on.
The pervert s guide to cinema 2006 subtitles opensubtitles. This year the folks at telluride went for broke with their selection of guest director, slavoj zizek, and his theory on pervert art. The voice belongs to british documentarymaker sophie fiennes, who also directed 2005s acclaimed the perverts guide to cinema, in which zizek delivers inspired rereadings of classic movies. Described by the times as the woman helming this freudian inquest, director sophie fiennes collaboration with slavoj zizek illustrates the immediacy with which film and television can. Fiennes and zizek released a followup, the perverts guide.
This public document was automatically mirrored from pdfy. He is also global eminent scholar at kyung hee university in seoul. Its about using film to understand psychoanalysis, and using psychoanalysis to understand film both individual films and film as a medium. Happily, this dvd seems to boast old wacky slavoj at his simplest. Serving as presenter and guide is the always charismatic slavoj zizek. His work has impacted both academic and widespread public audiences. Slavoj zizek is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural critic. Sophie discusses her motivation behind the documentary and her natural affinity to slavoj zizeks work at the birkbecks big ideas zizek lecture series.
Sophie fiennes and slavoj zizek filming the perverts guide to ideology in a junked jetliner in the mojave desert. A perverts guide sequel to make you think the boston. The symbolic, the sublime, and slavoj zizeks theory of film. Mar 17, 2020 slavoj zizek, slovene philosopher and cultural theorist whose works addressed themes in psychoanalysis, politics, and popular culture.
Described by the times as the woman helming this freudian inquest, director sophie fiennes collaboration with slavoj zizek illustrates the immediacy with which film and television can communicate genuinely complex ideas. The perverts guide to ideology galas 56th bfi london film festival. The sequel to the perverts guide to cinema sees the reunion of brilliant philosopher slavoj zizek with filmmaker sophie fiennes, now using their inventive interpretation of moving pictures to examine ideology the collective fantasies that shape our beliefs and practices. The perverts guide to ideology, sophie fiennes s second collaboration with the public intellectual slavoj zizek, sets out a daunting task. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective. Actually, slavoj zizek asked me a few weeks ago what we would be talking about onstage tonight and i said, slavoj, youre on your own.
Cultural theorist superstar slavoj zizek reteams with director sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema for another wildly entertaining romp through the. Slavoj zizek takes on the ideology machine of tinseltown. Conversation with sophie fiennes, director of the pervert. Introduction 3 note the precise characterization of the german ancien regime as the one which only imagines that it still believes in itself one can even speculate about the meaning of the fact that, during the same period, kierkegaard deployed his idea that we humans cannot ever. Cultural theorist superstar slavoj zizek reteams with director sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. The perverts guide to cinema 2006, ntsc, all region. The impasses c r i s i of todays c radical politics r t i q. Slavoj zizek archive articles, books, and videos by slavoj. Qualifizierte bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert.
Of course, this seemed immaterial when i heard that slavoj zizek was available to interview on the day of my departure. The ideas are interesting whether one finds them convincing or not, and zizek is engaging and at times humorous. The perverts guide to slavoj zizek the irish times. The perverts guide to cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by sophie fiennes, scripted and presented by slavoj zizek. David levene for the guardian t he slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek has thousands of devoted fans, and its easy to see why. Atua prin cipalmente nos campos da teoria politica, analise cultural e cine matografica e teoria psicanalitica. Drawn from zizeks scattered writings about cinema and. Sophia victoria twisletonwykehamfiennes betterknown as sophie fiennes, is an english. The perverts guide to cinema 2006 trailer sophie fiennes, slavoj zizek addeddate 20110407 07. A perverts guide to cinema zizek movies list on mubi. Tonight he will be speaking, i think, in part about god. In certain areas of northern vietnam the phone signal leaves something to be desired, namely, its presence. Drawn from zizeks scattered writings about cinema and film, this documentary film serves as a general. The film bears witness to german artist anselm kiefers alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hillstudio estate in the south of france.
The broad compass of his theorizing, his deliberately provocative style, and his tendency to leaven his works with humor made him a popular figure in the western intellectual left. Slavoj zizek on the desert of postideology master class. Slavoj zizek unleashes his voracious intellect on films from the sound of music to full. A film by sophie fiennes cultural theorist superstar slavoj zizek reteams with director sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. Slavoj zizek, of the perverts guide to cinema has returned, along with his director, sophie fiennes, to bring us the perverts guide to ideology. The perverts guide to ideology, directed by sophie fiennes sister of ralph, is zizek s fourth film, a remarkable goal for any university professor, let alone a scold who insists. Pdf the symbolic, the sublime, and slavoj zizeks theory of. Products and desire the perverts guide to ideology. Zizek s jokes contains the setups and punch linesas well as the offenses and insultsthat zizek. Slavoj zizek books europe racism liberalism capitalism communism pseudoleft fundamentalism hegel lacan kant talk and video. Wall street journal slavoj zizek perverts entertaining the. The perverts guide to ideology a followup to 2006s the perverts guide to cinema once again allows slovenian cultural critic slavoj zizek to playfully deconstruct. The perverts guide to cinema 2006, ntsc, all region, import by slavoj zizek dvd the perverts guide to cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by sophie fiennes, scripted and presented by slavoj zizek. The theories of slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst slavoj zizek might not be the first subject youd think could be easily translated into a documentary, but in her 2006 film the pervert.
The answer might easily be discerned by your interest in, and ability to digest, the perverts guide to ideology. The perverts guide to ideology director sophie fiennes. Sophie discusses her motivation behind the documentary and her natural affinity to slavoj zizeks work at. Anyone who has perused zizek s literature will be aware of his confusing lexicon and impenetrable prose. The film is basically a documentarystyle discourse by noted slovenian philosopher and cultural critic slavoj zizek. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic slavoj zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. Director, the perverts guide to cinema 2006 filmphilosophy. The perverts guide to cinema offers an introduction into some of zizek s most exciting ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form. Sep 02, 2016 the perverts guide to ideology dirigido por sophie fiennes imdb. The perverts guide to cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made.
Sophie fiennes directs zizek in new perverts guide delving once more into the hidden language of cinema, fiennes and zizek interpret what the movies reveal about ourselves, and the collective. Slavoj zizek and film theory literary theory and criticism. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, zizek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore. Slavoj zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context. A lone star mischief films amoeba films production 2006. Fiennes and zizek then filmed a followup, the perverts guide to ideology. When sophie fiennes approached me with the idea to do a perverts guide to cinema, the slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek wrote, our shared goal was to demonstrate how psychoanalytic cinema. Philosopher slavoj zizek and filmmaker sophie fiennes reunites for this followup to their hit the perverts guide to cinema, using their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of ideology the dreams that shape our collective beliefs and practices. In the perverts guide to cinema, the slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek subjects more than 40 mostly classic films to psychoanalytic scrutiny. The perverts guide to ideology is a 2012 british documentary film directed by sophie fiennes and written and presented by slovene philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist slavoj zizek. Aug 04, 2018 one of the early sequences of sophie fienness film the perverts guide to cinema 2006 opens with slovenian cultural analyst and philosopher slavoj zizek dressed in a yellow shirt, sitting a little uncomfortably at the helm of a motorized dingy, which, he declares, is floating in the middle of bodega bay, the location for alfred hitchcock.
His inventive, provocative body of work mixes hegelian metaphysics, lacanian psychoanalysis, and marxist dialectic in order to challeng. Toronto intellectual rock star slavoj zizek dishes out another actionpacked. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, slavoj liiek examines the ways we perceive and misperceiv8 violence. Living in the end times by slavoj zizek, the plague of fantasies by slavoj zizek, the sublime object of ideology by slavoj. Unlike any other book by slavoj zizek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. Topics the perverts guide to cinema 2006 trailer, sophie fiennes, slavoj zizek. The slovenianborn philosopher, cultural theorist, self. Conversation with sophie fiennes, director of the perverts guide of cinema conversation with sophie fiennes, director of the perverts guide of cinema. Filmgoers are bored with being talked down to documentarymaker sophie fienness latest philosophical quest with slavoj zizek presents another thrilling challenge for. Pdf the symbolic, the sublime, and slavoj zizeks theory. The perverts guide to ideology is a 2012 british documentary film directed by sophie fiennes and written and presented by slovene philosopher and psychoanalyst slavoj.
Slavoj zizek, sophie fiennes, the perverts guide to ideology, the perverts guide to ideology, sophie fiennes, slavoj zizek, the perverts guide to ideology, the perverts guide to ideology. Ubertheorist slavoj zizek and filmmaker sophie fiennes have teamed up to make a remarkable documentary called the perverts guide to cinema to put it bluntly, this is one of the coolest and most compelling films ive seen in a long time. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture. Slavoj zizek, the internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic featured in the sophie fiennes directed the perverts guide to ideology and the perverts guide to cinema, delivers a.
Slavoj zizek puts movies on the couch the new york times. Slavoj zizek articles, slavoj zizek interviews, slavoj zizke films, and slavoj zizek books. Slavoj zizek gets his own sequel in sophie fiennes engrossing follow up to the perverts guide to cinema. The perverts guide to ideology by sophie fiennes sophie. Exact from the 2012s the perverts guide to ideology by sophie fiennes and slavoj zizek. Slavoj zizek they live from 1988 is definitely one of the forgotten masterpieces of the hollywood left. Sophie fiennes s 2006 film, the perverts guide to cinema, made a movie star of charismatic slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek, albeit not of the ryan gosling breed. Reunimos aqui textos publicados na internet, em jornais, revistas e livros escritos pelo filosofo e psicanalista, ou escritos sobre zizek.
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