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<b><u><b>A FREE Screening and Q&A with Director Michel Gondry
and Prof. Noam Chomsky</b><br>
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<h2><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817287/">Is the Man Who is
Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky</a><font
size="-1"> (2013) </font></h2>
February 12, 2013 at 7:00 pm in <a
href="http://lsc.mit.edu/26-100">MIT Building 26- room 100</a><br>
<h3 class="news"><img
src="cid:part3.08040809.02020108@tecschange.org" align="right"
height="75">This FREE screening will be followed by a Q&A
session with Director Michel Gondry and MIT Professor Noam
Chomsky.</h3>
<p><b>Funded (in part) by a Director's Grant from the <a
href="http://arts.mit.edu/about/camit/">Council for the Arts
at MIT</a>.</b></p>
<p><i>Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?</i> is an animated documentary
on the life of MIT professor and linguist Noam Chomsky. Directed
by Michel Gondry (<i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</i>, <i>The
Science of Sleep</i>), the film features a series of
conversations between Gondry and Chomsky as they explore the life
and work of Noam Chomsky.</p>
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<p>"My conversations with Professor Chomsky were lively, sometime
complex, always very human. Through my illustrations, we follow
the winding path of my halting and incomplete understanding.
Noam is often patient, sometime less so. The trail always
follows unexpected bends. The process and logic of Noam's stream
of ideas have determined the transitions and evolution of my
drawings. The concept of 'animated documentary' finds a perfect
justification here.</p>
<p>At the heart of the conversation, we encounter Noam's theory of
the emergence of language. Listening to Noam discuss this topic
made we wonder what it would have been like to meet the
astronomer Edwin Hubble and listen to him talk about the red
shift he observed from distant galaxies and how it led to the
theory of the big bang. Maybe that is a weak comparison, but it
is another way of simply saying I felt privileged to have this
dialogue.</p>
<p>In the end, what will stay the most with me in these
discussions is Noam Chomsky's humanity, the way he respects
people's different ways of life, their beliefs - and, above all,
the way he often includes his wife, Carol Chomsky, in the
conversations, and in some way keeps her alive and next to him."</p>
<p><i>-- Director Michel Gondry<br>
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