Season curator Dr Adam Laity says:

“Donna Haraway has done perhaps more than any other contemporary thinker to encourage people to consider otherness and more-than-human engagement in the way that we think, play and create. Taking in science, technology, feminism, primatology, culture, ethics and ecology, Haraway has become as much a cultural figure as she is an academic one, and this film feels at times like a deep conversation with a wise, old friend.”

This understated and playful documentary reflects the personality of its subject, the philosopher, feminist theorist and academic Donna Haraway, whose ground-breaking work is defined by a profound commitment to feminism and environmental protection.

Haraway makes no distinction between people, other animals and machines, but creates new narratives about a rebellious and hopeful universe. Director Fabrizio Terranova spent a few weeks filming her and her dog Cayenne (whom she clearly considers one of her dearest friends) in their Southern California home, exploring their world and the development of Haraway’s views.

She shares entertaining stories and invites us to rediscover octopuses, spiders, dogs and their relationship to each other and us. Whether you are familiar with Haraway’s work or not, this film is a fun, freewheeling and imaginatively varied way to get to know her.

Part of More-Than-Human: Cinematic Landscapes of Otherness in Nature.

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