To celebrate the launch of Living In The End Times – the new book by ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’ Slavoj Žižek – on paperback, Verso Books and LWLies are inviting filmmakers to submit short films which respond, in creative and innovative ways, to Žižek’s theory of the end times, based on the following ‘four horsemen of the apocalypse’:
1. ECOLOGY
Impending ecological catastrophes
2. ECONOMY
The global financial meltdown
3. BIOLOGY
The biogenetic revolution and its impact on human identity
4. SOCIETY
Social divisions leading to the explosion of protest and revolutions worldwide
Your film must be no more than one minute in length and can take any format: animation, drama, documentary, stop-motion or other.
The winner will be picked by Žižek himself, and the winning film will screen before an open lecture by Žižek in London later this year. The winner will also receive a selection of Verso’s back catalogue, curated by the subversive publishers themselves.
Entries can be uploaded to a video-hosting website, such as YouTube or Vimeo, with a link sent to zizekfilm@thechurchoflondon.com by no later than June 30. Good luck!
NOTE: Although filmmakers will retain ownership over their submissions, Verso Books and The Church Of London will have full permission to feature content across all their platforms.
Slavoj Žižek is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. His latest book, Living in the End Times, is published by Verso – out now in hardback and in paperback from June.
LWLies 35 Creative Brief – Shooting Žižek (text) by Adam Woodward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Does the film have to include all four horsemen?
Written by jim on June 22nd, 2011 at 23:49
Hi Jim,
It can be one of or all of the four horsemen.
Written by LWLies on June 23rd, 2011 at 14:08