88:88 (2015) at Metro Cinema

When one is unable to pay one’s bills, the electricity is cut. Once one can pay again, the digital appliances flash 88:88.

While philosophical systems begin with the concept of nothing as a starting point for thinking, Isiah Medina’s film uses “88:88” as a marker of the nothing of poverty and the possibility of counting life anew.

Medina’s experimental film cuts together instances in the lives of friends and their experiences in love, science, art, and politics in order to see their lives outside of narrative, and to show thinking is always both possible and necessary.

Praised by philosophers, filmmakers, artists, mathematicians, and audiences around the world, this is a screening celebrating the film’s 10 year anniversary.

Canada 2015, 65 min, Dir: Isiah Medina
10th Anniversary

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Screening:⁠
August 30 at 3:30 pm⁠

https://metrocinema.org/production/8888/

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