All Illusions Must Be Broken (Dunn and Sewell 2024)
A cinematic contemporization of the work of American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker whose book The Denial of Death won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1974. Produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick.
Location
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 101
63 High St.
About the Speaker
Laura Dunn is an independent documentary filmmaker.
Laura Dunn started making documentaries in response to her undergraduate experience at Yale University. Through a chronicle of labor strikes on campus, the subtext of a Yale education examines the corporatization of higher education. Other work includes Green, a sobering look at environmental racism along the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor and Become the Sky, an ecological map of power in Texas. Her first feature, The Unforeseen, executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, premiered at Sundance, was released theatrically and broadcast on the Sundance Channel. More recently, Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry premiered at Sundance, Berlinale, and SXSW where it won a Special Jury Prize for Visual Design. Look & See toured to hundreds of small rural communities, aired on PBS Independent Lens, and is currently streaming on Netflix. Honors include a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Student Academy Award, Yale’s Trumbull Fine Arts Prize, International Documentary Association Pare Lorenz Grant and an Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband/filmmaking partner and their six young sons.
