Movies: Existentialism

"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...

The essay was due hours ago, midnight. Yet in the early morning hours our protagonist remains, more caffeine than blood travelling his veins. While checking his notes, he drops his pen. A simple mistake, but he'd be damned if it didn't seem to have s...

An animated anthology exploring the themes of death, dehumanisation, and transcendence through three interconnected short films: "Fragile Symphony," "World of Grey Men," and "Guardless"....

Genc gets into existential crisis, loses his will and purpose for his life, as he thinks that he is the cause of his roommate's death. As an escape from this reality, he uses the virtual (reality) world....

When life brings Suhas, a corporate trainer, to a new city, he comes across a lively young man and a mysterious traveller girl who make him ruminate about his life choices and aspirations....

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...

A Micro Universe is formed inside an expired tube of spermicidal lubricant dating back from the 1980’s. We see the formation of this universe through its aeons and the existential crises unfurling as a sex pest is eager to utilise it....

In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles upon a mysterious cinema that unveils his suppressed longings and leads him on a journey of self-discovery through his enigmatic reflection....

A man who feels paralysed by choice is sent into an existential spiral after finding a mysterious tape player that can tell the future....

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....

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind....

Matī Kütt’s experimental short animation plunges into the subconscious of a sick society. Through abstract, painted-on-film imagery—twisted pyramids, reverse tunnels, caged woodpeckers—a lone bureaucrat’s inner turmoil unfolds. Birds, oil, and surrea...

When a girl was ten-years-old she developed a brain tumor. Doctors were able to remove it, but at the expense of the perception of her own face. She can see, just not herself. One night she has a dream where she's offered a chance to finally see hers...

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning....

18 seniors living in retirement homes get the chance to go on a holiday to Greece. In addition to old age, many suffer from diseases such as dementia, cancer and permanent lung disease, but with the help of their companions and Dimitrios "Tackis" Sah...

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult da...

Two computer engineers are given a strange request by a monk: Compile all 9 billion names of god. One engineer discovers a strangeness regarding the entire situation....

A man experiences strange phenomena after arriving home in his car....

A woman is unaware that she is having a conversation with God....

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about....