Slavoj Žižek
Also Known As: Slavoj Zizek
Biography: A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Birthday: March 21, 1949
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Gender: Male
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Examined Life
Overview: Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Overview: A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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Žižek!
Overview: ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even stopping at home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while Žižek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Alice, Through the Looking
Overview: What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down on the morning after a masquerade party when her soulmate Rabbit whom she found the previous night has disappeared into thin air without leaving a trace after the crazy night, as befits the mysticism of the 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Overview: In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of todays so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-23
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Catastroika
Overview: The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after Greece's massive privatization program.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-04-26
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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Overview: In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Predictions of Fire
Overview: A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach', 'Irwin', and 'Red Pilot'.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Overview: A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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The Old and the New
Overview: It reconstructs the lively bustle of the Ljubljana subculture scene in the 80s, and it was made by two insiders. With minute and swift editing of the picture and sound, the makers compiled a number of documents and video shots made between 1982 and 1988.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Overview: A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Bravo: Laibach in Film
Overview: In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Bohn. Together they form a compelling story about Laibach, controversial Slovene music group in the eighties.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Houston, We Have a Problem!
Overview: The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston, We Have a Problem! filmmaker Žiga Virc adds new material to the discussion on both fronts. This intriguing docu-fiction explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Overview: From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differences are not only allowed, but also desired. This period ends with a ten-day war, when the identity turns from peacefulness, modesty and diligence into courage and a fighting spirit. The film documents the changes in Slovenia and its inhabitants, which have in recent years brought us to a completely different understanding of national identity, different from the one which was true in Slovenia as well as abroad twenty years ago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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The New Man
Overview: A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Genres: Drama Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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Risk
Overview: Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Overview: Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their thinking of the theses of Jacques Lacan. The Slovenian Lacan School was a spiritual resistance nest in orthodox ex-Yugoslavia, and Slavoj Zizek emerged as a globally operating philosopher-entertainer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Balkan Spirit
Overview: Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-08
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Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Overview: After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post colonial, post structural society, that can be perhaps summarized in the concept of post socialism? The disintegration of the concept of ideology means that notions are no longer clear. Because we think that we are outside an ideological context, but perhaps we ourselves are the centre of the ideology. It is this idea that corresponds with the thoughts about post socialism in the nineties, and probably the post ideological society of late capitalism as well. The end of the ideological period then perhaps seems imminent. These thoughts are considered in this philosophical media reflection, based on documentary fragments, statements by Peter Weibel and Slavoj Zizek and the works of three artists: Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb), "Kasimir Malevich" (pseudonym, Belgrade) and IRWIN (Ljubljana).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1997-09-03
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Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Overview: A debate between Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek, said to be regarding happiness and whether Capitalism or Marxism is better at delivering it.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Marx Reloaded
Overview: Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life?
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-11
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Bliss
Overview: A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Overview: In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Bohn. Together they form a compelling story about Laibach, controversial Slovene music group in the eighties.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-04
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Hyperstition
Overview: A film on time and narrative by Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian. Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into conditions of cybernetic governance that foreclose contingency.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-22
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The Swap
Overview: The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial district. Another narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic bailouts put the financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor, where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-19
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Antigone, How Dare We!
Overview: Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by placing the politicians, the decision-makers and the influencers of today in the roles of Žižek’s version of the ancient Greek drama Antigone. But what are the politicians roles? Does the Antigone of today represent populists, anti-migrants and fundamentalists, or those who would oppose them?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Overview: On February, April 19, 2019, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson debated Marxist philosopher Dr. Slavoj Zizek.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Overview: An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions from the public in regards to politics and ideology, gender and sex, philosophy and psychoanalysis, hardcore pornography and sexual liberation in the West, in his usual style of polemics and comedy.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-21
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Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
Overview: Aren't the deformed images of Marx which we often come across in the Czech Republic, a manifestation of the fact that we have not yet come to terms with the communist regime, asks Michael Hauser, philosophy lecturer from the Charles University in Prague. Filmmakers took his question and transformed it into a film. They followed a protest with their camera, they caught Slovenian philosophy bear Slavoj Zizek in a Prague archway. For those, who might get bored, they used colorful filters. Besides that, they invited a rat to participate, an animal that knows how to listen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
Overview: This is a completely uncut unexpurgated interview with arguably the most important philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek conducted at Tatiana's on the boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-27
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