Sussex lecturer directs film based on the work of French philosopher
By: Jaime Huxtable
Last updated: Tuesday, 1 April 2014
A lecturer in film production has directed Love in the Post, a film inspired by the book The Post Card by French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Joanna Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Film Production, directed the 80-minute film. Like the book, it plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a professor 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.
The film is funded and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Bedfordshire, Kingston University, University of Sussex and Heraclitus Pictures.
Love in the Post (2014) is directed by Joanna Callaghan, written by Joanna Callaghan and Martin McQuillan and produced by Heraclitus Pictures. Read the review in Times Higher.