Ahh, Berlin. What an amazing city. And an inspiration for some personal development which wound up making its way into this video.

The first video is the opening scene from the movie adaptation of Kafka’s “The Trial”, directed by Orson Welles. Excellent movie if you haven’t seen it. I was inspired to put this in, partly by my friend Stella, who claims to only watch movies made before 1965, and partly in response to some stupid drama that happened at the December 5MoF. All in all, it’s probably one of the best shorts on philosophy I’ve ever seen, that doesn’t get too preachy.

The next video is really fucked up German porn. Nobody complained about the dancing penis, so Ani and I decided to go as overboard as possible. I think that left a few people’s jaws totally dropped going “what the fuck?”.

The final video is a 1962 short film called “The Existentialist.” Probably one of the best gems I have found in years. I think we actually blew the audience away with that one. When the intro video ended, they really just had no idea how to handle it. To me, that is a sign of success.

Last note: our event had received a Cease and Desist notice from a group that has the phrase “Five Minutes of Fame” trademarked. Once we got this, I went to the EFF and they handled it for us. I’m very grateful to Corynne McSherry for her time and work on this. So we figured we’d homage this by making fun of lawsuits, Prince style. After the event, I was very amused to learn that Corynne was involved in a lawsuit defending a youtube video that got a takedown notice from… Prince.

-aestetix