In Plato's cave?

In Plato's cave?

2018 · 2 min

In Plato's cave? is an essay on protest and on voices that linger on. “Sometimes we have to listen very carefully,” a woman hears lingering on her audio recordings as she tries to record sounds from another political event. A voice over narrator suggests three possible answers to a picture. Three answers that leave room for interpretation. Are we still in Plato's cave?

Directed by Johannes Gierlinger

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