Derrida

If the very idea of a "revealing" documentary about poststructuralist philosopher Jacques Derrida strikes you as amusing, count yourself part of the target audience for Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman's coolly stylish film. Derrida himself, whose work has deconstructed such illusions of presence and the speaking subject, clearly finds it so, and he quickly makes the project his own. For each question posed to him, Derrida has at least one of his own, generally geared toward "underlining, not effacing" the artificiality of the entire documentary enterprise. Simultaneously engaging and resistant, Derrida is clearly enjoying himself — even as he points out that t...