December 24, 2004Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Death?
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Hailed by some viewers as a "life-transformational film" and "an absolute 'must-see' given this precarious age," Flight from Death explores the ways in which our day-to-day behaviors are affected by the awareness of our own mortality. Through stunning visuals and insightful interviews, this multi award-winning film, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, explores human beings' innate and subconscious fear of death and portrays the impacts of that fear on our behavior, specifically in regard to violence.
Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist and social theorist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this is the first documentary film ever to examine the manifestations of death anxiety on spiritual, cultural, and psychological levels.
Flight from Death is the culmination of many years of research and shooting all over the world in locations such as Egypt, Israel, Thailand, Guyana, Greece, Afghanistan, Mexico and China. It features interviews with leading scholars, philosophers, researchers and authors such as Sam Keen, Robert Jay Lifton, Sheldon Solomon, and Irvin Yalom, culminating in the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on video.
Hailed by some viewers as a "life-transformational film" and "an absolute 'must-see' given this precarious age," Flight from Death explores the ways in which our day-to-day behaviors are affected by the awareness of our own mortality. Through stunning visuals and insightful interviews, this multi award-winning film, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, explores human beings' innate and subconscious fear of death and portrays the impacts of that fear on our behavior, specifically in regard to violence.
Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist and social theorist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this is the first documentary film ever to examine the manifestations of death anxiety on spiritual, cultural, and psychological levels.
Flight from Death is the culmination of many years of research and shooting all over the world in locations such as Egypt, Israel, Thailand, Guyana, Greece, Afghanistan, Mexico and China. It features interviews with leading scholars, philosophers, researchers and authors such as Sam Keen, Robert Jay Lifton, Sheldon Solomon, and Irvin Yalom, culminating in the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on video.
