Pirate Enlightenment, Or The Real Libertalia Essays 52 mins): Babette Mangolte’s documentary

52 mins): Babette Mangolte’s documentary tracks down Pickpocket’s performers to discuss their experiences of working with Bresson

Daniel Brühl

presented by Marc Huestis and conducted by film historian Eddie Muller at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco

A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine

Pirate Enlightenment, Or The Real Libertalia Essays 52 mins): Babette Mangolte’s documentaryA rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything. The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends but it was also, argues anthropologist David