Perception Movies

Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.

Haunted by the scars of childhood bullying, JJ is a young man trying to outrun the anger and isolation that have followed him into adulthood. Pushing...

The secrets about unlocking the mysteries of consciousness by plant-drugs. The related chances and risks involved in this shamanism. While filming...

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...

A group of film students are methodically killed off by a mysterious slasher, but as the film plays out through their individual perspectives, we...

A person with inverted spectrum colour blindness would see the whole spectrum of colours in exact reverse: all the colour contrasts and relationships...

A slice-of-life documentary following Ulla, a blind woman adjusting to life after eye removal surgery. With the help of her guide dog, Laina, she...

Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's seminal 1979 film Manhattan. Melbhattan features more...

Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts recorded this video in 1971 as a pilot for a public...

A man is trapped in the same moment, reliving his death again and again. Only at the end does he realize who is really in control.

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

From prehistoric times to our technologically accelerated present, this exciting and entertaining journey through time explores the thousands of ways...

A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception.

The film follows five people who lost their sight in armed conflicts, gathering fragments of their present-day lives. Through an enveloping sound...

When Chloe photographs a violent attack outside her apartment, she is certain she has proof of what she saw. Then the image vanishes. As objects...

“Here are some Images” is an short film exploring the interplay between internal and external images, using hand-processed 16mm footage...

First we see indefinable sparks dancing frantically before our eyes. Then, gradually, these abstract sparks reveal themselves to be bits of skin...

Shot on 16mm film, Brume de Temps tells a story of intimacy, nostalgia, and the fragile boundary between loving your perception of a person and love...