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Showing 1 - 10 of 16 titles with a criteria of Subject is History of Ideas
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
The life and work of Wolfgang Beltracchi, a master forger whose work fooled the international art world for 40 years.
KimStim | 2015 | 93 minutes
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Reiko Endo visits Nagaoka to find out why victims of the tsunami were welcomed so quickly and to see a play by a high-school student.
KimStim | 2012 | 160 minutes
Derrida's Elsewhere
An exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.
Icarus Films | 2000 | 68 minutes
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
A portrait of one of the most important living thinkers in the fields of feminism, science and technology.
Icarus Films | 2017 | 81 minutes
4 years in 10 minutes
Vintage footage of alien landscapes and mystical mental states, shot by the first Serbian man to climb Mount Everest, is woven with puzzling excerpts from his diary, composing an experimental meditation on a journey to eternal glory.
Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 63 minutes
Galileo's Sons
A rare behind-the-scenes look at the Vatican Observatory, and the cosmological questions tackled by the Jesuit astronomers there.
Bullfrog Films | 2004 | 48 minutes
Hanagatami
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside’s nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town’s other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war’s gravitational pull.
KimStim | 2017 | 169 minutes
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
During years of solitude in an Alsatian village following the end of a relationship, Frank Beauvais found solace in the screen by watching films obsessively. He then crafted an audiovisual diary by editing shots of the films he was devouring, in which he links his private life with world events.
KimStim | 2019 | 72 minutes
Lotman's World
The story of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), little-known - except maybe in Estonia! - pioneer of semiotics. This title has one or more clips.
Icarus Films | 2008 | 57 minutes
On Healing Lands, Birds Perch
Behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic Pulitzer Prize–winning photographs lies a story resonant with today’s global crises.
Collective Eye Films | 2025 | 34 minutes
