Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival

Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival

Release Date

2016

Director

  • Fabrizio Terranova

An insightful glimpse into the thoughts of a contemporary feminist and revolutionary science historian Donna Haraway.

Donna Haraway is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology, a feminist, and a science-fiction enthusiast who works at building a bridge between science and fiction. She became known in the 1980s through her work on gender, identity, and technology, which broke with the prevailing trends and opened the door to a frank and cheerful trans species feminism. Haraway is a gifted storyteller who paints a rebellious and hopeful universe teeming with critters and trans species, in an era of disasters. Brussels filmmaker Fabrizio Terranova visited Donna Haraway at her home in California, living with her – almost literally, for a few weeks, and there produced a quirky film portrait. Terranova allowed Haraway to speak in her own environment, using attractive staging that emphasised the playful, cerebral sensitivity of the scientist. The result is a rare, candid, intellectual portrait of a highly original thinker.


Past Programs

2020

Can storytelling shape a new reality?

Film Streams, Omaha, NE