John Zerzan: Beyond the Symbolic (2024)
digital video, MiniDV, 8mm film / 8'47"

John Zerzan is the foremost thinker of anarcho-primitivism, an anarchist critique that rejects technological progress and advocates the abolishment of civilisation. Yet, despite his convictions, Zerzan lives a seemingly ordinary suburban life in Eugene, Oregon. We follow Zerzan around his house on his quest to escape from high-tech culture and experience life in the spirit of hunter-gatherer existence. While Zerzan struggles with various domestic technologies and his attachment to civilisation, the documentary medium accompanies him on his search while gradually regressing to earlier technological eras.

https://vimeo.com/1003537211
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