I AM (NOT) A MONSTER

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By Nelly BEN HAYOUN

DARTMOUTH FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019

The impossible pursuit of the origins of knowledge

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2019

Documentary Competition

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Nelly BEN HAYOUN
- Cast
- Noam CHOMSKY, Nadezhda TOLOKONNIKOVA, Magid MAGID, Arjun APPADURAI, Leon BOTSTEIN
- Producer(s)
- Christopher HIRD (Dartmouth Films), Nelly BEN HAYOUN (Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios)
- Synopsis
- ‘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’. 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. 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. 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.