Film & Philosophy: Kafka’s “The Trial”
March 22 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
What We’ll Be Doing
We’re excited to be resurrecting our film & philosophy events this year. We’ll be kicking off our first in the series with a matinee viewing of The Trial — a 1962 film based on Franz Kafka’s posthumously published novel of the same name.
Described in Orson Welles’ opening narrative as a film with “the logic of a dream…of a nightmare,” The Trial explores the nature of justice (both its beauty and its arbitrariness), law, authority, alienation, bureaucracy, oppression, and (more generally) questions about freedom, choice, meaning, and human condition.
After the film, we’ll have a community conversation led by Student Scholar Fellow Gavin Payne based on questions inspired by the film.
WHEN
Sunday, March 22nd
2pm-5pm (MST)
WHERE
In the Stonehouse Grotto @ Reeder's Alley
COST
Free ($5 suggested donation)
OTHER
BYOB & Snacks
Film Run Time: 1 Hr. 47 Minutes
Short break & community conversation to follow
About Our Facilitator
Gavin Payne is a senior at Helena High School, a regular participant at Merlin activities, and our first ever high school student scholar fellow. The founder of the Helena High School Moral Science Club, he aims to go on to the University of Montana to study philosophy and classics. In his free time Gavin loves to read, analyze poetry, and write. Gavin will be leading the Merlin film viewing & discussion nights later this spring and is kicking off with a film adaptation of one of his favorite books, Franz Kafka’s The Trial.
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