May 30, 2003
Contact: Andrew Cottonwood (509-925-2784/fax 509-963-1373/e-mail: cottonan@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Central Washington University’s
Progressive Student Union will sponsor a showing of “Waking Life”
Tuesday, June 3, at 7 p.m., in Black Hall 151.
The 2001 R-rated animated movie follows an unnamed main
character who cannot seem to snap out of his dream state. Wondering
why he can’t and what part his dreams play in his waking life, he
wanders from place to place, meeting people willing to share what they
believe.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times film critic, says the film
“…celebrates a series of articulate, intelligent characters who seek
out the meaning of their existence and do not have the answers. At a
time when madmen think they have the right to kill us because of what
they think they know about an afterlife, which is by definition
unknowable, those who don’t know the answers are the only ones asking
sane questions. True believers owe it to the rest of us to seek
solutions that are reasonable in the visible world.”
“Waking Life” won the 2002 National Society of Film Critics
“Best Experimental Film” and 2001 New York film Critics Circle “Best
Animated Film” awards.
Following the free, public showing, a discussion is planned.
For more information, or for persons of disability to arrange for
reasonable accommodation, call (509) 925-2784, or (for the hearing
impaired) TDD (509) 963-2143.
