Rudolf Lingens [ Corporate Personhood Symposium ] A surreal black comedy about a conference for corporate personhoods in a speculative future in which corporations have captured the state. In the keynote address, General Electric / KFC-Taco Bell speaks about what it means to be a person, as opposed to a human, drawing on philosophical treatments of ownership and phenomenology, while, in the plenary session, Facebook-Visa-Build-a-Bear discusses the aesthetics in the age of corporate personhood and analyzes the works of prominent corporation artists. Between these two talks is a dystopian interlude sequence in which a ski-masked performer dances through an abandoned museum on roller blades. Although in one sense they represent direct perversions of Western, humanist philosophy, these absurd discourses are, nonetheless, sincere inquiries about the nature of anthropocentric personhood within this philosophical tradition. Unabashedly absurd in tone, yet erudite and profound in content, the film leaves it to the viewer to distinguish farce from reality.