And that's just a fraction of what she does. Trained in painting, design, human geography and political philosophy, she is a designer of experiences, founder of the tuition-free university University of the Underground and a keynote speaker. Philosopher Noam Chomsky, activist and politician Magid Magid, Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Hannah Arendt's student, philosophy professor Richard Bernstein, are just a few of over fifty contributors interviewed for the film.īen Hayoun-Stépanian, the director, producer and writer of the documentary, is a true Renaissance woman. Ben Hayoun adopts Arendt's ideas, dresses like her and goes to meet various people to discuss knowledge, thinking and education. Her "partner in crime" is Hannah Arendt, a political theorist whose ideas on plurality and authoritarianism have become increasingly relevant in the wake of ideological policies such as Trump's and Le Pen's. The documentary follows Ben Hayoun-Stépanian as she embarks on an impossible pursuit to find the origins of knowledge, a handheld camera following her around the world. Director Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian in I Am (Not) a Monsterįilm profile], the third feature-length documentary from Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian ( Disaster Playground, The International Space Orchestra), world-premiered as part of the Documentary Competition at the BFI London Film Festival.
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