- Actors: Jacques Derrida, Marguerite Derrida, René Major, Chantal Major, Avital Ronell
- Directors: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick
- Producers: Amy Ziering, Gil Kofman
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Zeitgeist Films
- Release Date: Sep 1 2004
- Run Time: 84 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00011V872
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Moving Human Portrait; Astute Philosophically--Excellent,
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This review is from: Derrida (DVD)
Derrida is a philosopher who focuses especially on the implications of the fact that reality has a future. In other words, the ultimate state of things is not yet settled--and never will be! This is equally true of reality as a whole and of an individual life. The central question of human action is how to live in a way that addresses this futurity. How in dealing with ourselves, and how in dealing with others, can we both respect the specificity that our lives, our reality, has already taken on, and simultaneously be open to the indeterminateness and unexpectedness of the future, a future in which we may well be confronted with circumstances that require of us that we radically transform ourselves, that we change our expectations and prejudices in order to address what comes. How can we responsibly address the singularity, the specificity and the openness of a life, or of our world? These are the deepest and most demanding questions of philosophy, as they are the deepest and most demanding questions of life. This film, engages these questions by taking the singular life of the man, Jacques Derrida, as its theme. The film presents (so far as a short, non-technical film can) the thought of this man--a central dimension of his specificity--juxtaposed with other specifics of his life (his family, his home), and with the mortal, personal singularity of his existence, as a way of invoking these philosophical questions about the nature of a life and its meaning. This film is provocative, intelligent and moving. I recommend it highly, and I especially recommend it for use in university courses that touch on these philosophical themes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strengths,
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This review is from: Derrida (DVD)
This film has left me verbally speachless. Having the remote in my hand was an asset so i could pause and reflect on a scene, or snippit. The editing of this documentary leaves something to be explored. People have knocked this film for it's 'shortcomings' in editing and broad questioning. Isn't this one of the basics of deconstruction? Taking somethin broad and breaking it down, to what and then why? Let me bring it back up to broad... brilliant!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dvd is best format for this film,
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This review is from: Derrida (DVD)
watch this with another interested person. utilize english subtitles for hearing impaired as to not miss a word. utilize the rewind button when getting lost. push the pause button and look at the words. stop to ponder and discuss it. continue on in this manner. I appreciated Derrida's sportsmanship and playfulness, yet respected his intensity and commitment to who he is. Watch this critically and rigorously yet remain open. See the "center of focus" shift not by any conscious manipulation on the part of the subject or the filmmakers, but by the relationship had between them and thus the relationship all of this is having with you. Enjoy this. This man is a gift and this film is brilliant. I never wnated to read Derrida's puzzling prose before but this changed my mind and I want to start with the book "Archive Fever" as to me it seems so apt.
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