Philosophy
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Naqoyqatsi
In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are reanimated from everyday reality, and then altered with digital techniques, chronicling the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology. The Hopi term naqoy means war, qatsi means life, but this is not...Watch Movie
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly...Watch Movie
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Zizek!
The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important and outrageous cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric...Watch Movie
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The Seasons in Quincy
Prolific artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER examines...Watch Movie
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Derrida
One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of "deconstruction" Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. In the spirit of Derrida's work, acclaimed filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy...Watch Movie
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Examined Life
Filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer's thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth...Watch Movie
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Genet
"I don't know why I shouldn't talk about myself. I'm the person who knows the most about myself. Right?" So begins a fascinatingly frank conversation with the great French writer Jean Genet, conducted in the summer of 1981 (five years before his passing) by actor, theater director, and filmmaker...Watch Movie
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The Ister
In 1942, at the height of World War II, Martin Heidegger, the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, delivered a series of lectures on "The Ister," Friedrich Hölderlin's poem about the Danube River (which referred to the waterway by its ancient Greek name). Heidegger had achieved...Watch Movie
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Be Like an Ant
Post-Vietnam, Paul bought a trailer for his family to live in. Annoyed by how bad living inside a mobile home during winter could be, he took matters into his own hands and started to build a house around the trailer. He never made any blueprints. As the house took shape, he would take a part of...Watch Movie
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Unseen: The Lives of Looking
This revelatory documentary from artist Dryden Goodwin focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading human rights lawyer and the artist/filmmaker himself. Mixing Goodwin's closely...Watch Movie
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Act of God
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by...Watch Movie
