Edward Said

Edward Said's wife and daughter telling a stories and scenes of his own life.

Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson, Ethos lifts the lid on a Pandora's box of systemic issues that guarantee failure in almost every aspect of our lives; from the environment to democracy and our own personal liberty: From terrifying conflicts of interests in politics to unregulated corporate power, to a media in the hands of massive conglomerates, and a military industrial complex that virtually owns our representatives. With interviews from some of todays leading thinkers and source material from the finest documentary film makers of our times Ethos examines and unravels these complex relationships, and offers a solution, a simple but powerful way for you to change this system!

2003년 9월 팔레스타인 출신 미국인이자 뛰어난 학자였던 에드워드 사이드가 죽었다. 2004년 봄 사이드의 묘소는 그가 성인으로 대부분의 삶을 살았던 뉴욕이 아니라 또 그가 태어났던 팔레스타인이 아니라 레바논의 작은 마을 브루마나에 마련되었다. 이 영화는 사이드의 복잡했던 삶을 상징하는 그의 묘소에서 시작한다. '아웃 어브 플레이스'는 아랍, 이스라엘, 미국의 사상가들의 인터뷰를 가이드 삼아 에드워드 사이드의 기억과 그가 남겨놓은 유지를 통해 사이드가 그의 삶 내내 쟁취하기 위해 싸웠던 화해와 공존에 대한 전망을 탐사하기 위한 여행이다. 이 영화는 복잡한 강제이주의 면면을 세심히 관찰한다. 험난한 역사의 조류에 휩쓸린 팔레스타인 땅과 그 주민들, 주변국에서 피난민으로 살아야 했던 그들의 삶, 디아스포라의 오랜 박해에서 살아남아 전 세계에서 이스라엘로 돌아오는 유대인들, 그리고 희생자이자 가해자로서의 그들의 뒤섞인 정체성으로 인한 뿌리깊은 갈등이 그 것이다. 이 영화는 사이드와 함께 이스라엘과 팔레스타인 젊은이들 사이에 음악을 통해 화해의 장을 마련하는 프로그램을 시작했던 다니엘 바렌보임의 추도강의에서의 솔로피아노 연주로 조용히 끝이 난다.

Edward Said was one of the great contemporary intellectuals of our time and a prominent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause. Shortly before his death in 2003, a French film crew spent several weeks with him and his family. The result is this intimate documentary that offers Said's reflections on how the experience of exile shaped the central ideas, the work and the struggles of this famous academic and activist. Speaking of his background, Said once told a journalist, "My sense of exile has been lifelong -- it's a question of articulating it," Selves and Others features the Said speaking about his nomadic childhood and his views on Eastern identity in the West and how the city of New York balances tradition with a sense of constant change.

Prominent Columbia University English and Comparative Literature professor Edward Said was well known in the United States for his tireless efforts to convey the plight of the Palestinian people, and in this film shot less than a year before his death resulting from incurable leukemia, the author of such books as {-Orientalism}, {-Culture and Imperialism}, and {-Power, Politics, and Culture} discusses with filmmakers his illness, his life, his education, and the continuing turmoil in Palestine. Diagnosed with the disease in 1991, Said struggled with his leukemia throughout the 1990s before refraining from interviews due to his increasingly fragile physical state. This interview was the one sole exception to his staunch "no interview" policy, and provides fascinating insight into the mind of the man who became Western society's most prominent spokesman for the Palestinian cause.

For Palestinian expatriate Edward Said, the return to his homeland amounted to a painful inquiry into his past. This program captures the interconnection between Said's personal recollections and the shared memory of the Palestinian people. Far from ignoring the contemporary realities of the Middle East, Said's perspective relates the ruins of history to the complacent and destructive policies of present-day governments, and delivers a powerful articulation of the weaknesses of the Oslo accords. His intellectual legacy provides valuable insight into the circumstances of the second intifada, as well as the faint steps toward peace that have followed. A BBCW Production.

Edward Said's book ORIENTALISM has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and lavishly illustrated) interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient." Said argues that the Western (especially American) understanding of the Middle East as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples.

Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.

Its main focus is on the plight of the Palestinians which can be seen as the most enduring residue of the modern encounter between the Arabs and the West. Edward Said traces the course of European involvement with the Near East via the Crusades to Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and the French and English entrepreneurs, adventurers and empire builders who came in his wake.

Its main focus is on the plight of the Palestinians which can be seen as the most enduring residue of the modern encounter between the Arabs and the West. Edward Said traces the course of European involvement with the Near East via the Crusades to Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and the French and English entrepreneurs, adventurers and empire builders who came in his wake.