The Meaning of Life
PocketVisions: Suffering
Screened with: The Meaning of Life, The Boy Inside
18:30 Wednesday 2 December 2009 at University College London (JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building)
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Screened with: The Meaning of Life, The Boy Inside
18:30 Wednesday 2 December 2009 at University College London (JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building)
All PocketVisions events are free of charge
More information on event themes
A poetic film shot on 16mm black and white, HDCAM and Digibeta about people’s ideas on how they seek happiness and what the “good life” represents to these inhabitants of Queens, New York, most of them first- or second-generation immigrants with very little to show in the way of material success or any outer vestiges of the “American Dream.”
Director: Visa Koiso-Kanttila
Producer: Betsy Carson
Cinematographer: Kirk Tougas
Country: Finland
Length: 11 minutes
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