1/23/2024 0 Comments Here there be monster![]() What was your approach directing this film? As a response, I decided to make a film that will advocate on behalf of critical thinking, action and plurality- some of my students also feature in the movie. When we created the University of the Underground, we also received critique around the model we proposed to fund higher education. My students are part of the reason why I started the film, as I felt that I needed to build a federation of partners around our educative structure, to demonstrate to them the importance of the act of thinking and the need for plurality of thoughts and transnational education. This university was founded in 2017 as a charity with a set of partners in crime including activists and scholars Noam Chomsky, Arjun Appadurai or Nadya of Pussy Riot who feature in the documentary. There my colleagues and I, teach students how to use a plurality of disciplines and thoughts (ie film, music, design, politics, theatre and linguistics) to reveal and shift power structures in institutions. When not directing this film, I run a tuition free postgraduate university in Amsterdam and London in the basement of nightclubs. ![]() I am (not) a monster features: political activist Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Hannah Arendt’s students: Arjun Appadurai, Leon Botstein and Richard Bernstein, nonsense artist Novbumichi Tosa of Maywa Denki, robot maker Hiroshi Ishiguro, Japanese Living National Treasures: Bunraku puppeteer – Kanjuro Kiritake II, kimono master – Takayuki Takahashi, Noh Theatre master – Hisa Uzawa, Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid Magid, cyborg artist Neil Harbisson and many more – students, alternative schools and brilliant thinkers. Your guide in this adventurous journey is the alternative educator Nelly Ben Hayoun, who armed with puppets and dressed as Hannah Arendt, teases the greatest thinkers of our age whilst challenging them to an impossible pursuit the search of the origins of knowledge. ![]() From dangerous plots to dangerous actions, you will hear about our collective fears both past and present but also encounter the contemporary monsters and actors of the future: the humanoids. In this original film, learn about the thinking processes of activism and mechanisms of our risky thoughts. A most urgent film unravelling some of the reasons why Trump, Le Pen and others have captured people’s imaginations by reviving past ideologies. ![]() ‘To act is to begin something new’ said Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest thinkers of all time who passed away in 1975 and who coined the concept of the ‘banality of evil’. ![]()
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