Experimental meditation on land, complexity and evolution, consciousness, interconnection, and artificial intelligence. Shot in the Okanagan and West Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada. Original music by Jack Brintnell.
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.
Charlotte is a young woman alienated in her existential struggles. Lucca Riviera is a beginning musician with promising talent. When nobody shows up to Lucca's first concert, he decides to perform anyways, unaware of the impact he will have when Charlotte stumbles upon his show.
This documentary retraces the life of Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), French Christian philosopher. In evoking his life, it paints a portrait of the 20th century: the scientism of the Sorbonne, the rise of Nazism, the Resistance, Free France, Christian Democracy in South America, but also art, freedom, peace and love for the human person. Jacques Maritain, in the torments of the 20th century, of it's murderous madness and it's hope for peace, holds a secret: his ineffable and faithful love for his wife Raïssa, the inspiration for his political commitments and his philosophical thought.
It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.
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.
These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded in October 2009 at his home in Sant’Abbondio, Switzerland.
A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.
A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.
An astrophysics professor leads a lecture about a black hole that absorbs everything around it. He doesn't know yet that he will also be enveloped by this black hole.
In the late-night-early-hours of the morning, Gary has an existential crisis; he questions the meaning of life, much to the annoyance of his level-headed partner Meg, who attempts to calm him down.
How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing what gets to count as nature, for whom and when, and how much it costs to produce nature at a particular moment in history for a particular group of people.
This live show features the energetic analysis of television network news by Brian Winston. Winston looks at the news as a unique institution, governed by its own conventions and constraints.
Filmmaker Peter Sasowsky examines the life and work of artist Joe Davis