Zizek!
Directed by Astra Taylor*
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Format: avi (xvid) | Size: 700mb
2005, 71 minutes, Color
In English and Slovene with English subtitles
Source: budthechud
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The incomparable fifty-five-year-old Slavoj Zizek is a cosmic agitator. The Slovenian Lacanian-Marxist philosopher - with a little Hegel thrown in� actually, a lot of everything thrown in - has been referred to as an “academic rock star” and the “Elvis of cultural theory.” He is a passionate, hyperactive speaker who gesticulates wildly. He seems uncomfortable with conversational lapses, so with energy, charisma and complete conviction, he talks and talks and talks. He has written and published over fifty books, making him one of the most successful and prolific thinkers working today. A human encyclopaedia, Zizek has written on subjects as wide-ranging as Hitchcock, Lenin, opera and the September 11 terrorist attacks. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.
In Zizek!, a fascinating portrait, we follow the spellbinding lecturer to Rio de Janeiro, Boston and New York City. He orates to overcapacity crowds on his favourite themes: ideology, psychoanalysis, religion and love. “Love is a cosmic disbalance,” he states. Back in his hometown of Ljubljana, where Zizek ran for president in Slovenia’s first democratic election in 1990, we enter his tiny apartment. Amid kitchen cupboards stuffed with socks, underwear and bed sheets, the professor speaks about the magnificence and modesty of philosophy. While lying in bed topless, the philosopher declares that he does not solve problems, he redefines them.
In this intimate and playful film, Astra Taylor poses provocative questions to the theorist - whose ambition as an adolescent was to become a filmmaker - while they lunch together, devour DVD stores and even re-enact a scene from Vertigo. All the while, Zizek tries to evade his adoring fans: “Philosophy should be an anonymous job,” he says.
Unafraid to analyze himself, the completely intriguing Zizek admits he sometimes worries he is a fake. He claims to prefer people mispronouncing his name because it would make him paranoid if people said it correctly. He also dislikes being portrayed as a funnyman. “Making me popular is a resistance to taking me seriously,” he argues. And so for Zizek, being fascinating and successful - and having a brilliant mind - is a bit of a curse. — Stacey Donen
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* Astra Taylor was born in Winnipeg, grew up in Athens, Georgia, and lives in Montreal. She received a master’s degree in liberal studies from New School University in New York. She has taught sociology at the University of Georgia and at The State University of New York at New Paltz and has published her work in several journals. Her documentary films include The Miracle Tree (2001) and Zizek! (2005).
Zizek’s Marxism is the type that led Marx to declare he was not a Marxist…
looks like it will be interesting. Zizek lectures online at slought.org
Comment by Mason — put July 25, 2006 @ 9:14 am
we need more free thinkers like zizek.
Comment by omni — put July 27, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
Very nice.
The Puppet and the Dwarf made my head hurt, but this movie helped to make it all make sense. Zizek’s one of those geniuses whose brain is obviously overclocked to its limit.
Comment by Rich — put July 28, 2006 @ 9:20 am
tnx for the up!
Comment by big — put July 29, 2006 @ 7:21 am
Rio de Janeiro, Bolivia, Buenos Aires…I know these locations are small change and nothing to worry about, part of the Province of Magical Realism to many –including some Planetary Presidents. But the backdrop of this documentary shows recognizable spots of Buenos Aires. No scenes of Rio. For that go to “It’s All True.” And for Lacan, go first to Borges, who was born in Buenos Aires.
Comment by Edgar — put July 30, 2006 @ 5:41 am
Zizek is the best!
Comment by claire — put August 1, 2006 @ 5:04 pm
Hello:)\
I am new to this manner of downloading and I was wondering if you could indicate to me ways with which I can download this movie. Thank you,
Nikola
Comment by Nikola — put August 11, 2006 @ 12:26 am
There’s a good tutorial here
http://wiki.theppn.org/index.php/BitTorrent_Tutorial
Comment by Dr Grey — put August 11, 2006 @ 12:45 am
Zizek once declared that “shopping is like masturbating in public”. I couldn’t agree more (unless it’s H&M)
Comment by Peter — put September 2, 2006 @ 2:14 pm
[…] PS. Här fanns filmen som torrent, fast nu är den “Removed upon request by the copyright holder“. Samma tracker har däremot en annan dokumentär om Žižek. Posted by copyriot Filed in Uncategorized, film […]
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[…] Mi único conocimiento sobre este autor proviene del documental dirigido por Astra Taylor titulado Zizek! disponible en BitTorrent, que he descubierto gracias a la web Gpod. Este y otros muchos documentales interesantes son comentados por esta web y puestos a disposición para el que desee descargárselos a través de las redes P2P (recordemos, en España no es delito intercambiar este tipo de archivos si no hay ánimo de lucro). Zizek! es la segunda pelÃcula documental de la productora independiente Documentary Campaing con base en Nueva York. […]
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I recommend watching this movie as a parody of the Derrida documentary. I get quite a few laughs out of it from that angle.
Comment by J.D.L — put December 10, 2006 @ 10:08 pm
[…] Have any(/either) of you seen Žižek!? It is worth watching if only for his wonderfully bizarre appearance on some American chatshow. Also, just to show that I am not above prurient interests, here is one of his wedding photos. Anyone offended by intergenerational relationships would be strongly advised not to look. […]
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