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Raymond Tallis | on tickling
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Raymond Tallis | on tickling

Raymond Tallis | on tickling

Johan Grimonprez
Belgium
2017
8 min
Retrospective: Johan Grimonprez
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

Raymond Tallis is a neuroscientist who apart from being at home in other scientific disciplines, is also a poet and philosopher. When the film crew offers him a croissant, he jokes that his beard will need checking for crumbs, otherwise it will attract all the viewer’s attention. It is no doubt quite intentional that Johan Grimonprez chooses to break through the formal framework of his film, because it neatly illustrates Tallis’ argument that human consciousness is fundamentally relational—you can only be yourself in relation to others.

According to Tallis, a more accurate version of Descartes’ famous statement “I think, therefore I am” would be “We dialogue, therefore we are.” You can’t tickle yourself, you really need someone else to do it.

Tallis’ words are reinforced by an eclectic montage of found footage of running rabbits, waddling penguins, collapsing houses, an astronaut making crackly contact with Mother Earth, and two men violently arguing and smashing up the furniture in a television studio. After all, to have a fight you also need another person.

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Tickets & Times
Fri, november 15
Part of Retrospective: Johan Grimonprez Shorts, Free with Cineville. More info at idfa.nl/cineville
20:45 – 22:18
Het Documentaire Paviljoen: De Spiegel
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH)

Thu, november 21
Part of Retrospective: Johan Grimonprez Shorts
15:45 – 17:01
Pathé City 4
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH)

Sat, november 23
Part of Retrospective: Johan Grimonprez Shorts
17:15 – 18:31
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH)
Credits
8 min
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DCP
Spoken languages: English, Arabic
Director
    Johan Grimonprez
    Johan Grimonprez
Production
    Daan Milius for Zap-O-Matik
    Daan Milius for Zap-O-Matik
Co-production
    Daan Milius for Zap-O-Matik
    Daan Milius for Zap-O-Matik
Cinematography
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Editing
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn,
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn,
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Sound
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Music
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
    Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Screening copy
    Zap-O-Matik
    Zap-O-Matik
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