Philosophy Movies

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts recorded this video in 1971 as a pilot for a public...

This video is dedicated to your mastery of the art of realizing all your desires. The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your...

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her fathers' features.

A portrait of a couple of ceramic artists living in the French countryside. Structured around snippets of their daily lives, the documentary evolves...

O, a creator who has become lost within his own creation. As Death arrives at 3:33 am—the witching hour—to claim him, O is forced to...

A portrait exploring the enduring craft of wood canvas canoe building, and the quiet philosophy it inspires. "The Shape of Cedar" is both a...

How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings,...

A four-hour French comedy that masterfully blends absurdist humor with the profound existential philosophy of Albert Camus.

A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach',...

The interconnection between the philosophical film body and the trans human body is explored through the film’s materiality and the use of...

Den hardtslående intellektuelle retorikeren, lyrikeren, essayisten og forfatteren Georg Johannesen (1931-2005) døde i 2005 under en tur...

Somewhere, a man tinkers, cooks, and smokes in silence, caught between the tranquility of an afternoon nap and the strangeness of time stretching out.

Photography, drawing and video merge to tell the story of an artist who seeks purpose in the act of creation. Through his struggle to reconstruct his...

A group of plushies find themselves without purpose after their owner leaves for college. During their time alone they begin to form their own...

Identical twin mathematicians investigate what Einstein called, "The world's greatest mystery".

Documentary in which Michael Rosenhahn explains the philosophical subtext of the film Solaris (1972).