Documentaries in “philosophy and psychology”
Waking Life
Waking Life
Waking Life is an American live-action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film focuses on the nature of dreams and consciousness. The title, Waking Life, is a reference to the philosop...
Kakaram
Kakaram
From the author: I plunged myself (heart, body and soul) into the Amazon jungle I feared so much. I drank with the shamans as much of their sacred beverage, ayahuasca, as I could get my hands on… trying to reach my subconscious, trying to understand the Universe, trying to heal myself.
Desperately trying to forget the corruption, th...
Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die
Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die
In a frank and personal documentary, author Sir Terry Pratchett considers how he might choose to end his life.
Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2008, Terry wants to know whether he might be able to end his life before his disease takes over.
Traveling to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, Terry witnesses first hand the procedures set o...
Steal This Film
Steal This Film
In fighting file sharing, the entertainment industry is fighting the fundamental structure of the Internet. Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property and was a talking point in the British Documentary Festival. Part One, produced in Sweden and released in 2006, takes account of the prominen...
Steal This Film II
Steal This Film II
These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?
Because waves of repressi...
Philosophy and the Matrix: Return to the Source
Philosophy and the Matrix: Return to the Source
This is one of the two feature-length documentaries on the Ultimate Matrix Collection. It goes over many philosophical concepts that inspired, and are presented in, the trilogy. They spend the first half on the original film, and the rest of the time then goes over parts 2 and 3, with a couple of things on the Animatrix shorts.
This...