Part of the CDAS 2025 Conference - Death and transitions. Join us for this free session - ticket holders will get automatic access, so no need to book twice.
How does someone who desperately wants to be alive face death? How do they engage in the transition to death? These are the questions at the heart of the feature-length documentary, “Ain’t Got Time to Die,” created by Martin Krafft. Join us as part of the 2025 CDAS Annual Conference to watch the film and hear from Martin himself in a Q&A after the screening.
“Ain’t Got Time to Die” film follows the story of Rachel Heisham, a rural American nomad living in her RV with terminal cancer. Even as her body starts to fall apart, Rachel adventures around the American West, a landscape also in transition due to the devastating effects of climate change. As the pain in her body grows even greater, Rachel must return to a complicated past in her hometown. The film looks with tender candor at the harsh reality of dying from cancer, sharing the story of someone whose perspective as a low-income nomadic woman often gets overlooked. Join us as filmmaker Martin Krafft presents this 68-minute film and hear from Martin himself in a question and answer session after the screening.
Want to watch the trailer? You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyBSwUhVRHM
Biography
Martin Krafft uses video, photography, social practice, sculpture and writing to explore boundaries of “otherness.” His work pushes for a democratization of philosophy, sharing reflections from people whose voices are not often heard in the public sphere. He has worked in a Catholic Worker house serving the unhoused and Death Row inmates, as an inner city teacher's aid, on a ranch with a loving family of conspiracy theorists, and as an alternative preschool teacher, among other jobs. His feature-length documentary, “Ain’t Got Time to Die,” has won awards at film festivals around the world.
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