WIRED said it will hold its second WIRED@NIGHT event with an early screening of The Oldest Person in the World, a documentary by Oscar nominee Sam Green about the shifting roster of the world’s oldest living people.
The screening is scheduled for Thursday, July 23, at 7:45 pm at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The venue is doing a lot of thematic work here: a film about longevity, mortality, and the statistical weirdness of outliving the field is being shown in a cemetery.
According to WIRED, the documentary will not reach theaters until September. The event is being copresented with Rooftop Films.
What the film covers
WIRED described The Oldest Person in the World as a project filmed over a decade and across multiple countries. The film follows the changing list of people who hold the title of oldest living person, a category that, by definition, keeps expiring and being reassigned.
WIRED said Green’s film starts with longevity as its subject, then broadens into questions about time, chance, and the experience of being alive. That framing is promotional, of course, but the premise is concrete enough: the record is less a fixed achievement than a moving database entry, shaped by biology, documentation, and the blunt arithmetic of death.
Post-screening discussion
After the screening, WIRED said Green will join Reyhan Harmanci, WIRED’s features director, for a discussion about longevity. The conversation is set to cover what can be learned from people sometimes described as “super agers,” and why the prospect of living longer continues to draw so much public fascination.
Tickets are listed as general admission. WIRED said the standard price is $22, with WIRED readers offered a $12 price. Subscribers get first access to buy tickets for WIRED@NIGHT and save $10 per ticket, according to WIRED.
WIRED directed readers to buy tickets through Rooftop Films using the discount code “WIRED.” The publication also pointed people who cannot attend to a signup page for updates on future WIRED events.
This story draws on original reporting from WIRED.
