Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida is inspired by the book The Post Card by Jacques Derrida. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.
Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna struggles to complete a film about The Post Card. These people are set on a collision course prompted by a series of letters that will change their lives. The film features a never before seen interview with Derrida, alongside contributions from Geoff Bennington, J. Hillis Miller, Sam Weber, Catherine Malabou and Ellen Burt.
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida, HDV, 80′, 2014
Director: Joanna Callaghan
Written: Joanna Callaghan & Martin McQuillan
Cast: Leigh Kelly, Birgit Ludwig, Lucinda Llloyd
Composer: Peter Coyte
Cinematographer: Joachim Bergamin
Editor: Ariadna Fatjo-Villas, Joanna Callaghan, Justinian Buckley, Steven Worsley
Produced: Heraclitus Pictures
Funded: Arts & Humanities Research Council, Kingston University & University of Bedfordshire
Distributed by Kanopy
Winner: Best Practice Research Project from the British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies
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