Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Hot Topic: Match Me If You Can
In an alternate 16th-century Europe where online dating somehow exists, Slav (Slavoj Žižek) is the quintessential Renaissance man, pondering life’s greatest question: “To match, or not to match.” Between tinkering with inventions and perfecting his chess game, he is faced with his ultimate challenge – falling in love.
- New Zealand
- 2024, 15 min
- Director: Mardo El-Noor
- Screenplay: Mardo El-Noor, Slavoj Žižek
- Producer: Mardo El-Noor
Mardo El-Noor
Mardo El-Noor is a director-designer of ads and music videos from New Zealand. He dabbled with fiction after finishing art school in 2008, creating three animated short films that were screened around the world at festivals such as SITGES, Animest, the Milan International Film Festival, and the Message To Man International Film Festival, among others. His animated short Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating is his first fictional work since 2010.