GCAS Films

Nietzsche wrote that philosophy is always the biography of the philosopher. Alain Badiou’s story suggests that the opposite is also true. The first feature-length documentary film on France’s most famous living philosopher.

On the director Gorav Kalyan (director, editor, cinematographer) is a Philadelphia-based filmmaker and co-founder of Nonetheless Productions. Gorav studied philosophy before moving to California in 2006, where he studied Film Directing at the California Institute of the Arts. He was a 2013 Film Independent Project: Involve fellow, and has made feature-length films, documentaries, short films, and music videos.

Filmed a few days after the historic Greek referendum, minutes from the Greek parliament and the tear gas of Syntagma Square. Ten leading thinkers in democratic politics take turns in a single room, answering one question: how do economics affect politics today, and what does that mean for the future of democracy?

SYNOPSIS — a Film shot on location in Athens Greece during the GCAS Conference July 15.

Over two years, Dimitris Athyridis follows Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team as they build documenta 14 across Athens and Kassel — scouting sites, choosing artists, installing the work. The film runs to fourteen parts and roughly fourteen hours, and it stays in the room for the arguments most exhibition films leave out.