Freedom from Everything
2022 · Documentary · 87 min. · Canada
Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out in Hito Steyerl’s essay gem “Freedom from Everything” which is adapted and shapeshifted here. Pronouncing on the new precarity of the freelancer, Hito wryly observes that they have “freedom from everything,” from a good job, health care, affordable housing…
Direction Mike Hoolboom
Cast Margaret Thatcher · Guy Fawkes · George Michael · James Baldwin · Akira Kurosawa · David Wojnarowicz
Screenplay James Baldwin · Mike Hoolboom · Hito Steyerl
Original title Freedom from Everything
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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