Philosophy Movies

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

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

This remastered, rare, local production from the 80s is an unfiltered look into the mind and heart of the world-renowned folk artist Howard Finster....

Terence McKenna gives us a detailed description of his TimeWave concept and a demonstration of the software Terence originated in his early...

"Resonances" is an abstract journey that invites diverse interpretations. For some, it’s the tale of an ant that delved too deep, for others, a...

Helena Petrovna von Hahn, called Madame Blavatsky, was an extraordinary personality of her time, regardless of how we decide to observe her...

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

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

This documentary retraces the life of Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), French Christian philosopher. In evoking his life, it paints a portrait of the...

With their relationship on the rocks, David and Emily move to Halifax to catch a break from the pandemic and their monotonous routine. Upon meeting...

A romantic, a scoundrel, a private man .... The touching and absurd story of the philosopher Albert Camus as seen through the eyes of the many women...

A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy.

American Philosopher is a collection of eight short films by Philip McReynolds, a philosophy lecturer and amateur filmmaker. McReynolds has recorded...

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground...

Documentary on writer/philospher Simone de Beauvoir via interviews of herself and friends supplimented with archive footage resulting in an intimate...

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

What if the control, of which U always thought U had, disappeared? Everything seems to be determined by something or someone else. Would U fight back?

Alan Watts discusses the Western dichotomy of work and play, and explains that when you take the play out of work life becomes joyless drudgery.