Movies: Existentialism

"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...

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

Directed by Armand Bouvier, "S'asseoir" is a four-hour French comedy that masterfully blends absurdist humor with the profound existential philosophy of Albert Camus....

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A burning flame, black-and-white, opens Nasos Karabelas’ “Osmosis”, a philosophical piece on life, death, loneliness and nothingness. Nothingness, this absence, this lack of something, is a major force in Karabelas’ film. It’s disorienting, just like...

A man sits with his cat on a lonely day and calls the operator, asking if there is a number for God. Premiered on the BBC Culture Show and featured in The Animation Show Vol. 4....

Makulatura [which means both scrap paper and pulp fiction in Russian] is a duo of poets Evgeniy Alyokhin and Konstantin Speransky, who have been performing together since 2003. Blending classic literature references, mind-bending introspection, musin...

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

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

A teen contemplates his life after getting locked in his garage during a power outage....

A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life....

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

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

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As an unwavering natural force, Maj Wechselmann produces at least one film a year, which is guaranteed to show troublesome connections between established power structures and maladjustments for people further down the hierarchy of society; this time...

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....

18 seniors living in retirement homes get the chance to go on a holiday to Greece. In addition to old age, many suffer from diseases such as dementia, cancer and permanent lung disease, but with the help of their companions and Dimitrios "Tackis" Sah...

In this early exercise work of the director, three vignettes get intertwined within space and time. Often raw, often illusory, each vignette focuses on different surfaces of existential crisis of seemingly different characters. But, are they really d...

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...

Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe....