"we should develop a much more terrifying abstract materialism" (Zizek).
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I'll have to see the movie. But the above stood out. I am not sure what Zisek means, but I have my own way of understanding a general idea that may or may not be something like he intended.
Anyway, I just finished the interview, and I have to say that was one of the best interviews with a film maker I ever read. What I like about it, is that Astra Taylor tells you how to make the film.
I've spent years in shops fixing wheelchairs and talking to interesting people. It is almost unimaginable how many people have greatly interesting things to say. Sometimes we would get so carried away that the chair long finished, we continued until one or the other was forcibly reminded to move on.
So the art of the movie is great to read about. The opening scene in Phaedrus is a meeting in the market and then a walk past the city wall, along a road to some trees for shade in the mid-day heat. They are called the dialogues. When I first read some of them, and works that use a dialogue format, I thought it was a strange idea. Most of my first class in philosophy was devoted to the analytic schools, so the notion that philosophy could just be a conversation seemed very strange ... because I had always thought it was very rare sort of subject, very technical and so on, far removed from everyday life. Then there were Galileo's dialogues and even Machilvelli's Discourses read more like a dialogue with a chatty and witty Italian. Then there are other surprises like Descartes who seems to write in his own voice. Or Sartre who seems to write in his, a chain smoking neurotic.
So I'll keep a look out.
CG