Benita Raphan’s Great Genius and Profound Stupidity

Director Benita Raphan’s documentary, Great Genius and Profound Stupidity, will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival as part of the Short Documentary Competition.This experimental documentary-which includes interviews with Avital Ronnell, Oliver Sacks, and Merce Cunningham-explores pilgrim mathematician Paul Erdős, Hellen Keller, and the philosophical ideas of genius and stupidity. Full details here.