Movies: Existentialism

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"Like a Pig in Shit" is a twenty-minute video piecing together audio and visual material found online, a collage technique common to the artist’s practice. It comprises nine movements and a spiraling, ultra-introspective, stream-of-consciousness mono...

When a girl was ten-years-old she developed a brain tumor. Doctors were able to remove it, but at the expense of the perception of her own face. She can see, just not herself. One night she has a dream where she's offered a chance to finally see hers...

A teenage girl spends her afternoon cooking. She is alone. Or isnt't she? A student short film shot and completed entirely from afar due to Covid19 restrictions....

Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the case, at the same time Under the cold stars can hardly be considered a documentary: the microcosm on w...

In the late-night-early-hours of the morning, Gary has an existential crisis; he questions the meaning of life, much to the annoyance of his level-headed partner Meg, who attempts to calm him down....

A person ponders where their life is headed, in their own anxiety-ridden mind....

Do you need children, careers and partners to feel happy? The filmmaker Lotta Stemme has for five years documented both her own and three of her friends' griefs in the middle of their lives. Lotta tries to catch up with everything. Catherine chose to...

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind....

Nearing the end of his university studies, a soon-to-be graduate reflects on his life up to this point, all through the lens of a Handycam his father used to use....

Two brothers walk into a graveyard, yet can't find their fathers grave....

"Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross...

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery....

In the cabin the conductor activates the gear lever; his motion breaks the inertia. Behind is the station, then images of the machinery, the resignation of travelers, and the landscape. The events are increasingly bizarre; there is no destination, on...

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The film is about a filmmaker who is trying to make a better film. They are trying to make decisions with fun rather than stress. They are also trying to make decisions that will make the film more enjoyable for the audience....

Two kids entangled in the pursuit of young love find themselves colliding with the life of a woman experiencing a crisis....