A Short Film Set at a Longevity Festival Lands at NYT Op-Docs
The New York Times' Op-Docs platform has acquired The Revolution Against Death, a short directed by two-time Oscar nominee Joshua Oppenheimer, Deadline reports. The documentary is set at an annual longevity conference called the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival, and NYT Op-Docs and MUBI will co-release it globally in early December. The title compression does a lot of thematic work: the festival promises a revolution against aging and death, and the film keeps only the second half of the target.
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A festival named the Revolution Against Aging and Death gets shortened to The Revolution Against Death for the film — half the promise is gone before the opening credits.
Or the film is pointed at the harder half. Aging is a process you can argue with; death is the deadline you can't.