Documentary:A Missing Self16 min. essayistic documentaryon identity, transculture, cultural boundaries and ways to transcend them Starring a Japanese artist calling herself "A Passenger" (trailer) |
 A still from the
film.
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| It is a companion to "The Phenomenology of Truth".
Both titles feature the same performer (in this one she
chose to be anonymous.) Both marvel about the ways we seek the
truth. While "The
Phenomenology..." deals with our perception of the
outside world, "A Missing Self"
attempts to address the way we
see our own selves. The project brings together two activities that share concern about how we construct our cultural identities. One does it through performance art, another through a philosophical discourse.  A
still from the film.
Premieres on Dec. 12 during the fifth edition of the Philosophical Film Festival. Cracow, Poland. a post premiere discussion (in Polish) is here |
“Each
culture is insufficient rather than sufficient,
and looks for dialog with other cultures”, “so it’s a very important
right for a person to live beyond one's own culture.” (the clip) Mikhail
Epstein,
Ph.D.
Emory University “The freedom to create oneself requires a range of socially transmitted options from which to invent what we have come to call our identities.” Albert
Anderson,
Ph.D.
Babson College “Any society which calls itself free has to give its member possibility to get outside of its regular framework.” Werner
Krieglstein,
Ph.D.
DuPage University "We have to transform ourselves"
Soho Machida, Ph.D.
Hiroshima University Graduate School written/directed by
Pawel Kuczynski music by Andrzej Dudek-Durer |