Movies: Existentialism

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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...

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

In the haunting stillness of post-Soviet suburbia, a lone man walks with purpose — toward the river. With each heavy step across the gray, lifeless field, he carries not only his own weight, but the burdens of an entire generation. He does not speak...

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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....

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

A small mistake in timing... A man who has given up on life is stopped by something unexpected: Death itself. Their encounter leads to a tragicomic conflict that questions the strange logic of existence....

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....

Documentary about twin brothers who go back to their childhood home to discover what happened to a Patrick Lurzing, a boy who disappeared who nobody else seems to remember....

Rudra has come back one morning, has return to his friend Saruar's home. He had disappeared from home leaving no cue, a year ago. Saruar first came to know about Rudra's disappearance in Rudra's mother's call. Then he had gone to Rudra's home and saw...

Seàn-Liqué Bleùharde's latest New-New Wave experiment invites the audience to question not just what they’re watching — but when. Shot on stark black & white 16mm film, this is post-silence cinema at its most profound....

An existentialist conversation divided in chapters between the animated alter ego of the author and two alien creatures that represent future versions of herself....

Experimental short film about the fragility of time...

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

In a quiet garden where time feels suspended, a young dreamer with a broken watch and a plucked flower shares a bench, unknowingly sparking a quiet venture. Shepherded by an enigmatic individual, through time, mortality, and the fragility of life....

Feelings of parental rights over the child, skepticism towards socially accepted relationships and the idea of individual freedom in the social-state sphere....

"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...

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....

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