Description:

a screening and discussion of
OUTLANDISH: STRANGE FOREIGN BODIES
(UK 2009, 35mm on digital, color, 20 min. French with English subtitles)
Philosopher and heart transplant recipient Jean-Luc Nancy meditates on the history and integrity of bodies in a number of visual and literary passages exploring his onscreen presence, a surgical organ in search of a body and an unaccounted for, displaced invertebrate at sea.

organized by NIL|Northwestern Image Lab

SPONSORS:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Department of French and Italian, Block Cinema, Art Theory and Practice, Screen Culture Center, MFA in Documentary Media

PHILLIP WARNELL produces cinematic works exploring a range of philosophical, poetic and sensorial thematics. His last three films were made in dialogue and collaboration with French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. Warnell is currently a Fellow at FSC-Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.