Lost and Found at the Movies:
How to Survive Your Own Death

Riley Stearns In conversation with Gillian Wallace Horvat
Monday, Apr 25, 2022 | 7:15pm Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library

Inspired by Riley Stearns’ dark comedy, DUAL, in which a woman miraculously recovers from a terminal illness only to be forced into a duel to the death with the clone she commissioned to comfort her loved ones, this program will examine representations on film of humanity’s dream of transcending its fragile mortality via cloning and the uploading of consciousness. Picking up where Cartesian philosophy and uncanny literature left off, filmmakers have used science fiction to expand the conversation of what transcending our bodies means to our understanding of individual identity and the logic of trying to live forever on a dying planet. We’ll look at decades worth of visionary science-fiction clips and end with an in-depth conversation with Riley Stearns about his cinematic inspirations and thoughts on the future of mankind.

 

LFLA Members are invited to enjoy an exclusive reception following the program.

Lost & Found at the Movies is generously supported by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

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Riley Stearns

Riley Stearns is a Los Angeles based writer and director. His short film THE CUB screened at Sundance in 2013. In 2014, his feature debut FAULTS premiered at SXSW Film Festival. His sophomore film THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE starring Jesse Eisenberg premiered in 2017, also at SXSW. DUAL is his third feature film. Stearns is a brown belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu and loves Dachshunds.

Gillian Wallace Horvat

Gillian Wallace Horvat is an Independent Spirit Award-nominated filmmaker whose work has shown at Rotterdam, SXSW, Venice and other festivals around the globe. Her short form documentaries on film history have appeared on dozens of blu-rays and her film writing has appeared online in Filmmaker Magazine, Sight & Sound and Talkhouse.

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