Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us. Examined Life interweaves fascinating “walks” with philosophers (Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek...) through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas -crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park and even a garbage dump. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates.

Reinke uses archival footage from the Prelinger Archives — films on the integration of psychiatric wards into general hospitals, dermatology, testosterone pellet implantation, various newsreels and home movies from the 30's & 40's — to construct seven discrete but interlocked "exercizes" which posit various relationships between author/audience and the subjects in the footage.

A personal reportage focusing on concrete actions by Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals working together in the face of, and against, current agendas to displace Palestinians and to limit their movements.

"I'm not finished and do not know how long I have left, although I'm officially dead." In its fiftieth anniversary, Colin check out his past drug and alcohol. Four years to recover, is now furious and brilliant to think about addiction, detoxification and love in the streets. In the chaos and claustrophobia of an ice storm, Colin hopes to be reborn. His guardian angel is running late.

“If people really knew the process through which money is created, the system would not hold more than 24 hours” - Henry Ford. Faced with a lack of money, the people have begun to reinvent it, initiating credit and barter systems and inventing local parallel economies. An essential and incisive look into the hidden side of money.

The danger that humanity's common property is being appropriated by private interests. The form of the story is inspired by Genesis: “God created the world in seven days”. Today, the All-powerful Business Man is transforming it all into merchandise. His objective: to finally proclaim the Total Market.