Our movie MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN was fist showed in NYC on July 1st 2019, at NeueHouse. The emotions and discussions with audience afterwards was so profound, and with such a diverse, inclusive crowd ! men, women, lgbtqia+, millenials, elders, journalists, poets, war veterans... we talked, deconstructed, created, discussed about manhood, adulthood, community, women, war, heroism, emotions, compassion, feminism, therapy, spirituality... 


in a more detailed way : 
00:00 welcome by Jerry and Mai
03:09 panel intro by Mélissa Unger
03:35 for Jerry : you have been running men’s groups for 25, why have you felt it was the right time to have this discussion public?
Jerry : I felt we, in this men's group, had a secret we needed to share to the world
04:55 for Mai : can you explain how the filming came about?
06:30 for Mai : you’ve just finished your movie about your female lineage, it is so interesting that you came to do this film about men just afterwards?
Mai : such resistance to go into this project about men and vulnerability 
09:10 for Sebastian : your work treats traditional macho masculinity. What have you learnt on war frontline and with this movie about men.
Sebastian : there is a link between danger and emotions. We need rites of passage.
11:55 for Barbara : How does this movie enable further philosophical opportunities?
Barbara : the best characters in a play will teach you who they are in a brief period of time. these guys do that with a laser focus. Never seen a movie or a work of art like that before. We both understand these men and begin a discussion with ourselves.
15:22 for Jerry : your work is more about creating community than about fixing problem. for Sebastian : extend on tribe.
Jerry : community, accountability, back to our origins, shame
Sebastian : we are social primates. We die in isolation. War is an act of love. We may need life and death consequences situation for men to bring people together. 
21:30 for Jerry : rites of passage
Jerry : society used to have rite of passage, to tell to boys : you are a man now. We don’t have that anymore
23:30 for Mai : can you talk about gender
Mai : the main thing is about vocalizing singular identities
26:45 for Barbara : How this film can impact the way you write male characters?
Barbara : the next play, i am searching the same quality, in fighting stereotypes but crafting male characters
28:30 for all : what is your dream for the future?
Jerry 29:25 : for these men to not to be remarkable
Mai 30:00 : for culture to help people grow
Sebastian 31:10 : modern society and machines are diminishing human dignity and if men are not meant to protect people anymore then there will be a pb
Barbara 33:10 : this man explains in the move explains how he has stopped judging

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