Isabelle Stengers: Building Hope on the Edge of the Abyss

In this documentary film essay, a mysterious house and a magical forest set the stage for the rebellious Belgian philosopher Isabelle Stengers. Terranova’s carefully directed dialogue with nature initiates us into the threads of her ecological thought. Stengers responds to what she describes as “catastrophic times” and a “coming barbarism” by proposing a cosmopolitical multiplicity of non-hierarchical practices and cooperative common world of humans and other life forms. 

Isabelle Stengers: Building Hope on the Edge of theAbyss | R: Fabrizio Terranova | BEL 2023 | 75 min | OmeU