Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers explore the originating violence of humans in the work of three non-fiction filmmakers
For all the talk of our present as a moment of crossing into a zone of the ‘post-human,’ the question of what defines our humanness remains stubbornly at the center of most non-fiction filmmaking. In the shadows of this question lurks the more fundamental issue of the relationship between our ‘essential’ nature (if one exists at all) and violence. In their book, Violence's Fabled Experiment (August Verlag, 2018), Todd Meyers (Associate Professor of Anthropology, NYU-Shanghai; NYU Global Network Associate Professor) and Richard Baxstrom (Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities, University of Edinburgh) consider this question through the recent works of three non-fiction filmmakers.
English Language
with support from:
August Verlag
NYU-Shanghai
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh