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salome
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posted September 06, 2006 04:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for salome     Edit/Delete Message
interesting and relevant perspective on the nature of immortality ~

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

"Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality" is a feature length documentary about the root causes of violence and how our aggressive tendencies are directly related to our fear of our own mortality. The film has been called "One of the best films of the year. Period." by top Hollywood media expert Michael Levine.

Running time: 85 minutes, Format: Digital video, Release date: out August 2005, Production company: Transcendental Media, Original language: English, Producers: Patrick Shen & Greg Bennick, Director/editor: Patrick Shen

Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a "life-transformational film," Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level.

Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this documentary explores the ongoing research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world. Over the last twenty-five years, this team of researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior, specifically aggression and violence.

Flight from Death features an all-star cast of scholars, authors, philosophers, and researchers including Sam Keen, Robert Jay Lifton, Irvin Yalom, and Sheldon Solomon culminating in a film that is "not only thought-provoking but also entertaining and put together with a lot of class" (Eric Campos, Film Threat). Three years in the making and beautifully photographed in eight different countries, Flight from Death is "a stimulating, ultimately life-affirming film, filled with big ideas and revelatory footage" (Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times).

http://www.myspace.com/flightfromdeath


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