Movies: Perception

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet....

Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance....

Carried by an immersive sound environment that plunges us in the reality and the perceptions of these resilient and inspiring people, this film questions our own blindness face to violence and suffering of our time — despite the overabundance of imag...

Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the villagers incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint....

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Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to pr...

A group of film students are methodically killed off by a mysterious slasher, but as the film plays out through their individual perspectives, we learn more about the darkly comedic truth behind the murders....

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we con...

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

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Martin Haberstich thinks he witnessed a murder. When he finds out what really happened it’s too late. A slightly surrealistic murder mystery about perception and reality. A film that explores new territory, it’s film noir revisited, with an existenti...

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection? How can walls grant boundless freedom? Driven by intense childhood impressions, director Christoph Sch...

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are...

Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's seminal 1979 film Manhattan. Melbhattan features more than sixty black and white tableaux of Melbourne each composed to mimic images in Allen's film....

Perception explores the breach of experience that divides us all by glancing into the lives of three individuals: Clarissa, a young idealistic photographer who chooses to live as a homeless person on the streets of New York, supporting herself meal b...

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

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

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 television series in the United States....

A man is coming home after a long day outside. Something or someone is starting to follow his path, trying to reach him. But his extrasensorial perception begin to warn what's happening....

A dreamy autumn picnic goes awry when it receives an unexpected visitor....