Twenty tears of shared gazes: Sophie Fiennes and the new theoretical challenge with Slavoj Žižek
by Nicola Davide Angerame
Presented in Venice Open – Out of Competition, The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias brings Sophie Fiennes back into dialogue with Slavoj Žižek, twenty years after their first film together. Moving between cinema, psychoanalysis, politics and the visual noise of the present, the film asks what remains of utopian thinking in a world increasingly haunted by catastrophe.