No Festival Required Independent Cinema and Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Club present
“How Happy Can You Be?” A Film by Line Hatland
Monday April 26th 2010, 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:15)
With guest speaker Dr. Howard Cutler
LECT Room 110, Arizona State University West
4701 West Thunderbird Road
Glendale, AZ 85306-4900
Parking map
http://www.west.asu.edu
Campus number (602) 543-5500...
[read more] No Festival Required Independent Cinema and Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Club present
“How Happy Can You Be?” A Film by Line Hatland
Monday April 26th 2010, 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:15)
With guest speaker Dr. Howard Cutler
LECT Room 110, Arizona State University West
4701 West Thunderbird Road
Glendale, AZ 85306-4900
Parking map
http://www.west.asu.edu
Campus number (602) 543-5500
FREE TO THE PUBLIC - LIMITED SEATING -ADULT CONTENT
NFR website
http://www.nofestivalrequired.com
Sponsored by ASU’s New College, Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Club, Philosophical and Religious Studies Society, and Concilo Estudiantil de Lideres Latinos
What are the factors that make a person happy? Does being happy actually improve our life? Can scientists measure one's degree of happiness? Is there an identifiable psychological profile for a happy person? Is it possible to arrange our lives to be as happy as possible? And how, exactly, does one define happiness?
In HOW HAPPY CAN YOU BE?, filmmaker Line Hatland, who admits to not being as happy as she'd like to be, seeks answers to these questions by interviewing and showing the work of some of the world's leading researchers on happiness, or "objective well being," including psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and neuroscientists. Among many other things, we learn the three main factors contributing to happiness, including life circumstances, intentional activity (what one chooses to do), and one's genetic makeup.
Guest speaker is Dr. Howard Cutler, co-author with the Dalai Lama of THE ART OF HAPPINESS, THE ART OF HAPPINESS AT WORK AND THE ART OF HAPPINESS IN A TROUBLED WORLD. Dr. Cutler is a leading authority of the practice of “positive psychology”.
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Filmed throughout the world—including the U.S., Greenland, Europe, and Asia—HOW HAPPY CAN YOU BE? combines interviews with these leading figures in the positive psychology field with archival footage, scientific experiments, impressive (if not always credible) statistical data from the World Database of Happiness, questionnaires submitted during anthropological field trips, the filmmaker's family history and her bemused reflections on what she learns about the keys to happiness.
Although it may not add up to a scientific guide to happiness, which is the unspoken but primary life goal for most people, HOW HAPPY CAN YOU BE? examines many factors that determine the extent of satisfaction with one's life, and their implications for one's personal well being and social relationships.
"A summary of happiness research, nicely visualized with a good sense of humour... a good start for a discussion about happiness as such."—Jan Ott, Journal of Happiness Studies
"An entertaining journey into the personality trait-or is it a state-of happiness."—Science Books & Films
"Blends, with humor and intelligence, the personal impressions of the filmmaker, who questions her own inability to be happy, with very knowledgeable research results."—Pèlerin Magazine
"A lucid, surprising, and, above all, encouraging survey!"—Famille Chrétienne
"Although declaring her own inability to be happy, the director reels off a series of precepts which are both funny and sensible."—Le Monde
