Recently I watched the documentary come biopic on his life Derrida and was not only enlightened in the life of this very private philosopher, but was also pleasantly surprised to see the film embodying Derrida's work and thought in its own construction.
At points the film is a fairly standard documentary, you've got the hand-held camera work, the focus often drops, there are interviews etc. etc. But there are several points where the film steps beyond the realms of ordinary documentary and begins to deconstruct itself. An unannounced scene around halfway through films over Derrida's shoulder as he watches the rushes of an earlier scene where he's being interviewed, and then later we see him watching this scene back too. It was little moments like this that made this documentary far more interesting and engaging that your standard biopic.
Derrida - Smoking a pipe, being a genius.
Another thing that I found incredibly interesting about this film is that Mark Z. Danielewski, (one of my literary heroes of all time, see HERE for some further gushing from me on this) was the assistant editor and sound editor, which both blows my mind and confuses the hell out of me.
The film, while about Derrida and his life, is also about his work and interspersed with the scenes from his day-to-day are passages of his writings from (I believe) one of the directors Amy Ziering Kofman. This particular passage leapt out at me and is something that I still can't stop thinking about:
'The question of the archive is not a question of the past. It is not the question of a concept dealing with the past that might already be at our disposal. An archivable concept of the archive. It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise, and of a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive, if we want to know what that will have meant, we will only know in times to come. Not tomorrow, but in times to come. Later on, or perhaps never.'
I would at this point love to show you a trailer, but there isn't one that I can source. So just rent it, or buy it, or just acquire it for long enough to watch.