Director's Statement In my mind, Simone Weil provides a bridge between increasingly polarized secular and religious communities around the world. And her life stands as a poignant example of our personal obligation and need to attend to the world, locally and globally. As a documentarian, I am fascinated by how she questioned all ideologies, how she searched tirelessly for the causes of human oppression, and how she ultimately turned political questions into spiritual ones. I am drawn to Simone Weil because I see a parallel between her philosophy and the practice of documentary filmmaking, the practice of looking, of attention, of embodied inquiry into the world. Are we here simply to bear witness, as painful and impotent a role as that may be?
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