Perception Movies

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

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

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...

Presence and absence, exit is an entrance

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...

Dismissed by those around her, a young woman begins performing as a living statue, finding strange power in stillness, until she reclaims the...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A young cameraman's plan to sabotage his boss leads him to question his own perception, and through this, he learns to see the world through a wider...

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

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

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

A 'cowboy' is wandering the way cowboys do, until a bystander stops him and critiques his authenticity.