Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies
The Flying Proletarian
$12 Special Event Tickets
The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome British filmmaker and 2017-18 Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow Phillip Warnell to present and discuss two films made in dialogue and collaboration with French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. Warnell’s long fascination with the enigmas of the animal world and its relation to the human is made clear across these probing and formally astute films. – Haden Guest
PROGRAM
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Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies
Directed by Phillip Warnell.
UK, 2009, DCP, color, 20 min.
French with English subtitles.
DCP source: filmmaker
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. Outlandish is a journey between shores and environments, the touching of and proximity between bodies, the vanishing and appearance of crew, dimensions of form and, above all, our relations with strange foreign bodies.
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The Flying Proletarian
Directed by Phillip Warnell.
UK, 2017, 16mm transferred to digital video, color, 36 min.
augmented cinema (scented)
French with English subtitles.
Copy source: filmmaker
The third film collaboration between filmmaker Phillip Warnell and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy explores ideas on the land, the stranger and the open, with a surge of space-race animality. A sensory account of lavender distillation, the film suggests an historical character, timeless philosophy and flora and fauna-infused life-world of La Drôme.
