A blast from that distinctly Californian academic milieu sitting somewhere between the human potential movement and Silicon Valley futurism, here we have the influential author of “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” holding forth (some might say rambling circuitously) on topics including science fiction and her life inside a sexually fluid extended family of friends and lovers.

Much of it is captivatingly dotty, including director Fabrizio Terranova’s inelegant if disquieting video effects, like the enormous jellyfish that placidly floats in and out of Haraway’s study. Some of it is exquisite brain food. It all comes together (probably) in the wonderful sci-fi short story Haraway recites at the film’s end.