Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam (2004)

8.0/10 84 min Documentary

Overview

AXIS OF EVIL is an experimental-feature-documentary-essay that features interviews with sixteen artists, scholars, and activists, including Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Bernardine Dohrn, Martha Nussbaum, and others, talking about the concept of evil, its usefulness as a framework for US foreign policy, and evils that they've encountered in their lives. The interviews are illustrated with postage stamp art, archival footage, and other elements that interact with, illustrate, and comment on the statements of the interviewees.

Cast

Bernardine Dohrn

Daniel Ellsberg

Martha C. Nussbaum

narrator

Howard Zinn

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