Join us for a screening of a Panorama Especial (TV Cultura) interview with Clarice Lispector. Withheld from broadcast—at Lispector’s request—until after her death, this is the only known audiovisual recording of her available. Wide-ranging and poetic, the interview reveals one of the 20th century’s most singular, profound, and mystifying writers. Much like her prose, Lispector is at once vulnerable and aloof as she reflects on the creative energies that drove her—forces she followed more often than she understood.

To accompany the screening, we encourage you to read The Egg and the Chicken by Lispector. All attendees will receive a specially designed booklet of the reading to take home.

The evening will begin with a short conversation about Lispector’s writing, and end with a post-film discussion on the interview, the reading, and the universal creative energy available to us all—a visitation, a gift, a mystery.

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Inspired by the spirit of publicly accessible educational programming from the 80s and 90s, Educational Television is a Problem Library project that archives short films, documentaries, and television programs we find valuable. Our aim is to reanimate television as a medium for education, provocation, and inspiration—and to celebrate curiosity in the mechanisms, mystery, and magic of the world.

Educational Television currently exists as a website streaming two channels 24/7. It invites a “slow viewing” approach by removing the ability to skip or pause. At our in-person screenings, we pair one or two films from the collection with a complementary (or contradictory) reading to expand our scope of inquiry, conversation, and reflection.

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