Movies: Philosophy

Christopher Gabriel, a young American, suffers from constant nightmares. These dreams have been coming for a long time, and nothing seems to be able to stop them. Suddenly, an unknown group of people kidnaps him and conducts a number of strange exper...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it....

The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence....

Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by placing the politicians, the decision-makers and the influencers of today in the roles of Žižek’s version of the ancient G...

A remake of the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock classic about two longtime friends who attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party with the family of a classmate they just strangled to death....

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One of the most interesting shows ever aired on public television was Wim Kayzer's interviews with six leading intellectuals who represented both the mainstream academic (Stephen J. Gould, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) and more or less, as it we...

A traveler, wandering through all four seasons in just one day, discovers that every season holds its own beauty. With its meditative and magical tone, the film invites viewers to consider that even the impossible is possible....

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th century, French writers, form a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers propelled the figure of the politically engaged writer into the limelight....

Johan van der Keuken explains, "Some fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a film series in a relay style for a very popular variety program on Dutch television: each new program was to start from the last image of the previous program, developing th...

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An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview....

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Director Jan Bucquoy has a bunch of actors read from the Guy Debord novel which shares the same title. Slowly but surely real life an Debord's reflections upon it start to diffuse....

In 1949, philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir wrote the groundbreaking The Second Sex, launching a disruptive discourse on women’s oppression and second-class citizenship. This film dissects the origins and relevance of this bible of feminism,...

Xan García, in search of the meaning of things, interviews 13 classmates to discuss and reflect on life. They talk about death, love, happiness, and life itself. Finally, upon finishing high school, the 13 participants say goodbye and embrace the fut...

Experimental meditation on land, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. Shot in the Okanagan and West Kootenays. Original music by Jack Brintnell....

Terence McKenna gives us a detailed description of his TimeWave concept and a demonstration of the software Terence originated in his early exploratory period of deep study with the I Ching, the ancient oracular Chinese Book of Changes. He proudly ta...

Lacerating Transmutation is an experimental work inspired by the novel The Passion According to G.H., originally written by Clarice Lispector....