Editing Simone Weil (section)

== Weil in film, stage, and media ==
"Approaching Simone" is a play created by [[Megan Terry]]. Dramatizing the life, philosophy and death of Simone Weil, Terry's play won the 1969/1970 Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play.

Weil was the subject of a 2010 documentary by [[Julia Haslett]], ''An encounter with Simone Weil''. Haslett noted that Weil had become "a little-known figure, practically forgotten in her native France, and rarely taught in universities or secondary schools".<ref name="encounter">
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Weil was also the subject of Finnish composer [[Kaija Saariaho]]'s ''La Passion de Simone'' (2008), written with librettist [[Amin Maalouf]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Olivia Giovetti|date=2018-03-01|title=Deep Listen: Kaija Saariaho|url=https://van-us.atavist.com/deep-listen-kaija-saariaho|access-date=2020-09-20|website=VAN Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601163627/https://van-us.atavist.com/deep-listen-kaija-saariaho |archive-date=1 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Chris Kraus' 1996 film ''Gravity and Grace'' alludes to the posthumous work of Simone Weil. Chris Kraus' 2000 novel ''Aliens & Anorexia'' chronicles her experience producing the film while also touching on Kraus' personal study and interaction with Simone Weil's philosophy and life.  

Weil's work, ''Venice Saved,'' was not completed in her lifetime but put together as a play and translated by Silvia Panizza and Philip Wilson.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-28 |title=The Play's the Thing: On Simone Weil's "Venice Saved" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-plays-the-thing-on-simone-weils-venice-saved/ |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref>  

[[T. S. Eliot]], W. H. Auden, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, [[Flannery O'Connor]], [[Susan Sontag]], [[Octavia Bright]], Anne Carson, Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, Mary Gordon, Maggie Helwig, Stephanie Strickland, Kate Daniels, Sarah Klassen and Lorri Neilsen Glennall cite Weil as an inspiration of their books and literature.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Rozelle-Stone |first1=A. Rebecca |title=Simone Weil |date=2024 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/#ReceInfl |access-date=2024-09-20 |edition=Summer 2024 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Davis |first2=Benjamin P. |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=4 (De)creation: Simone Weil Among the Poets |date=2024-12-31 |work=The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil |pages=171–228 |url=https://doi.org/10.7312/wall21418-005 |access-date=2024-12-23 |publisher=Columbia University Press |doi=10.7312/wall21418-005 |isbn=978-0-231-56023-8}}</ref>   

[[Clancy (album)|Clancy]], a character from [[Twenty One Pilots]]’ albums [[Trench (album)|Trench]], [[Scaled and Icy]], and [[Clancy (album)|Clancy]] reflects themes inspired by the French philosopher Simone Weil. Like Weil, who critiqued oppression and explored the quest for spiritual freedom, Clancy's journey through the oppressive city of Dema, ruled by tyrannical bishops, mirrors Weil's critiques of oppressive systems and her emphasis on the quest for spiritual freedom. The connection is further highlighted by the leader of Dema, Nico, a reference to [[Nicolas Bourbaki]], a pseudonym linked to Weil's brother, [[André Weil]]. Additionally, the bishops’ religion, Vialism, pronounced similarly to "Weilism," hints at a direct homage to Simone Weil, underscoring the album's exploration of suffering, awareness, and the search for truth, key themes in Weil's work.