Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World (2019)

Harvard-educated biologist, artist and philosopher, Steven Friedman answers life's big questions. Using personal narrative, poetry, art, and science, he offers a solution to the world's pain based on logical rigor - a philosophy starting from Kierkegaard's story of an ancient torture device that turns the terrible sounds of pain into music. Filmed live at Santa Monica Playhouse 2/21/2019.