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A Trip to Infinity 2022
Documentary
Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the world's most cutting-edge scientists and mathematicians go in search of the infinite and its mind-bending implications for the universe. Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.
The sides of A Trip to Infinity
- Mathematicians and physicists on infinity
- Animated sequences from artists in ten countries
- Hotels with infinite rooms and endless universes
Good for you if
- you like your head spinning at the size of the universe.
- you like a paradox you keep thinking about after the film.
- you like cosmologists asking if the universe goes on forever.
Bad for you if
- you want people and stories, not ideas.
- you don't like a documentary carried by animation.
About: infinity · time · the universe
Encounters at the End of the World 2008
Documentary
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica, where he finds a desolate, beautiful landscape, largely untouched by human hands, and a group of truly unique people who risk their lives to study it. Centered at McMurdo Station, the United States' largest Antarctic research center, Herzog explores the minds of the scientists willing to abandon civilization and endure volatile conditions to learn more about the continent's wildlife and awe-inspiring natural wonders.
The sides of Encounters at the End of the World
- A research station in Antarctica
- Divers under the ice
- A penguin heading inland alone
Good for you if
- you like ice caves, volcanoes and seals under the sea ice.
- you like silent dives beneath the Antarctic ice.
- you like Werner Herzog's odd questions to odd people.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and this one wanders at Herzog's pace.
- you'd rather not hear musings on the end of humanity.
About: nature · solitude · science · the end of the world
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema 2006
Documentary
A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.
The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
- Slavoj Žižek talking through famous films
- Rebuilt sets from Hitchcock and Lynch films
- Psychoanalysis applied to desire and fantasy
Good for you if
- you like an excited philosopher talking nonstop about movies.
- you like strange readings of Psycho, The Birds and Blue Velvet.
- you love classic Hollywood and want to see it with new eyes.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours of lecture is too much for you.
- you need a story with people to follow, not one man talking over film clips.
About: desire · fantasy · cinema
Tim's Vermeer 2013
Documentary
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.
The sides of Tim's Vermeer
- An inventor who has never painted
- A room in Texas rebuilt like Vermeer's
- Mirrors, lenses and years of patience
Good for you if
- you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.
- you like a centuries old question about how Vermeer painted.
- you like Dutch painting from the 1600s.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and months of painting wear you out.
- you want Penn and Teller's stage comedy. Here they mostly watch a friend paint.
About: art · obsession · patience
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016
Documentary
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
The sides of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
- Werner Herzog asking what the internet is doing to us
- The first message sent between two computers
- Robots, hackers and dreams of Mars
Good for you if
- you like hearing the people who built the internet tell how it began.
- you like Herzog asking whether the internet dreams of itself.
- you like odd detours to people who flee all radio waves.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a family harassed online after their daughter's death.
- you need momentum more than ten loose chapters of musing.
About: technology · the future · human connection
The Five Obstructions 2003
Documentary
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.
The sides of The Five Obstructions
- Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
- Lars von Trier inventing the rules
- One remake made as a cartoon
Good for you if
- you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
- you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
- you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
- you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.
About: creativity · constraints · mentorship
Ghost in the Shell 1995
Anime
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
The sides of Ghost in the Shell
- A cyborg agent in a special police unit
- A hacker who can rewrite people's memories
- Long silent shots of a city in the rain
Good for you if
- you like asking what's left of you when your body is a machine.
- you like a dense, rainy city drawn in every detail.
- you like long quiet moments between short bursts of action.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want a plot that's easy to follow. Hacked memories and rival police sections tangle fast.
About: identity · technology · the soul
Waltz with Bashir 2008
Documentary
A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
The sides of Waltz with Bashir
- An Israeli director who can't remember his war
- Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
- Animated memories that end on real footage
Good for you if
- you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
- you like a director investigating his own past.
- you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
- you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.
About: memory · guilt · war
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology 2012
Documentary
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
- Slavoj Žižek standing inside scenes from famous films
- Ideology read through Hollywood
- Psychoanalysis applied to pop culture
Good for you if
- you like a philosopher talking nonstop about films you know.
- you like ideas you have to work to follow.
- you want to see how films quietly sell you politics.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through more than two hours of one man talking.
- you want a story with people, not a lecture.
About: ideology · cinema · belief
Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself 2020
Documentary
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
The sides of Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
- A magician alone on a small stage
- Audience members choosing who they are
- Card tricks that turn into confessions
Good for you if
- you like magic that leaves you quiet rather than clapping.
- you can watch one man hold a room with stories and cards for ninety minutes.
- you'd rather keep a question like "who am I" than get it answered.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a stage show that asks you to be moved.
- you need momentum. Most of it is one man speaking softly on a small stage.
About: identity · illusion · being seen
The Midnight Gospel 2020
Series
Traversing trippy worlds inside his universe simulator, Clancy the space caster explores existential questions about life, death and everything in between.
The sides of The Midnight Gospel
- A space caster interviewing people in dying worlds
- Real podcast conversations about death and meditation
- A last talk between a son and his mother
Good for you if
- you like psychedelic worlds where anything can melt or explode.
- you like long, calm conversations about life and death.
- you like being moved, and the last talk between Clancy and his mother can bring tears.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you need a plot that moves, and Clancy mostly talks while worlds end around him.
About: death · acceptance · meditation
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds 2020
Documentary
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.
The sides of Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
- Werner Herzog chasing meteorites
- Craters from Mexico to Australia
- Scientists and believers who read the sky
Good for you if
- you like Herzog in awe before giant craters and the night sky.
- you like hearing where shooting stars come from.
- you like the odd people and rituals that gather around meteorites.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and Herzog takes his time.
- you want explosions, not crater visits.
About: the cosmos · belief · curiosity
Oppenheimer 2023
Película
Película sobre el físico J. Robert Oppenheimer y su papel como desarrollador de la bomba atómica. Basada en el libro 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer' de Kai Bird y Martin J. Sherwin.
Las caras de Oppenheimer
- El hombre que construyó la bomba
- Un pueblo secreto en el desierto
- Una audiencia que decide su destino
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una interpretación protagonista sostenida por la mirada.
- te gustan las salas llenas de gente brillante discutiendo.
- quieres sentir la primera prueba en el pecho.
Mala para ti si
- tres horas de conversación son demasiado para una sola noche.
- quieres acción. Son sobre todo reuniones y audiencias.
- quieres una historia contada en orden. Salta entre épocas.
Temas: la culpa · el poder · la ciencia
The Wind Rises 2013
Anime
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
The sides of The Wind Rises
- An engineer who dreams of airplanes
- The great Tokyo earthquake of 1923
- A love story shadowed by tuberculosis
Good for you if
- you like a quiet film about a life of work and dreams.
- you like a gentle love story that knows time is short.
- you want the life of the real man who designed Japan's Zero fighter.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want air battles, and this is about drawing planes, not flying them in war.
About: creation · love · war
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya 2010
Anime
A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.
The sides of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Kyon waking up in a world without the SOS Brigade
- Yuki Nagato as a shy ordinary girl
- A school week before Christmas
Good for you if
- you like piecing together how the world was changed.
- you like long quiet scenes in a cold, empty winter school.
- you like Kyon forced to ask himself what he really wants.
Bad for you if
- two hours and forty minutes is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: choice · friendship · normal life
Into the Inferno 2016
Documentary
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
The sides of Into the Inferno
- Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer
- Lava lakes in Vanuatu and Ethiopia
- A North Korean volcano treated as sacred
Good for you if
- you like standing at the edge of a boiling lava lake.
- you want eruptions and lava flows filmed up close.
- you like Herzog drifting from volcanoes to cults and myths.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, not Herzog's long detours.
- you want eruptions back to back, not interviews between them.
About: nature · belief · the end of the world
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? 2004
Documentary
Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders impart information directly to an off-screen interviewer about academic issues, and Amanda begins to understand the basis to the quantum world beneath. During her epiphany as she considers the Great Questions raised by the host of inserted thinkers, she slowly comprehends the various inspirations and begins to see the world in a new way.
The sides of What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
- A divorced photographer questioning her life
- Interviews about quantum physics and the mind
- Animated cells at a wedding party
Good for you if
- you like big questions about consciousness and reality.
- you enjoy a mix of fiction, interviews and odd animated sequences.
Bad for you if
- you need the science to hold up to scrutiny.
- you roll your eyes at talk of creating your own reality.
About: consciousness · self-help · spirituality
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 2004
Anime
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."
The sides of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- A cyborg detective and his basset hound
- Dolls that kill and then destroy themselves
- A long parade through a city of canals
Good for you if
- you like every frame composed, down to the rain on a canal.
- you like piecing a case together while the characters quote old books.
- you like a choral score that carries a whole sequence.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese film.
- you need momentum and not long silences between two lines of philosophy.
About: what counts as alive · loneliness · memory
Behind the Curve 2018
Documentary
Meet the growing, worldwide community of theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat while living in a society who vehemently rejects it.
The sides of Behind the Curve
- Flat Earth believers at a convention
- Mark Sargent and his YouTube videos
- An experiment that does not go their way
Good for you if
- you're curious about people who believe the Earth is flat.
- you like a portrait that takes Mark Sargent and his friends seriously.
- you like a tight community of believers who find friends, and rivals, in each other.
Bad for you if
- you want to laugh at flat Earthers. The film listens to them instead.
- you need more happening than people talking on camera.
About: belief · community · science
Nostalgia for the Light 2010
Documentary
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
The sides of Nostalgia for the Light
- Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
- Women searching the sand for their dead
- Pinochet's political prisoners
Good for you if
- you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
- you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
- you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.
Bad for you if
- you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.
About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice