Short film
From the Labour of Baruch d'Espinoza
1973 · 32 min
A cerebral, repetitive experiment that asks you to watch ideas being performed rather than a story being told.
- Directed by
- Frans van de Staak
- Overview
- From Spinoza's Ethica 82 sentences were selected without a strict coherence and re-assembled in seven components. Each component was filmed four times at least, in a different setting with different actors. Spinoza's sentences are taken as dialogues 'tout court', and not as a collection of opinions. Spinoza's style of philosophical thinking is presented as an activity in the first place, which is then revealed by each individual actor in his own way.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, faith, morality, art
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Frans van de Staak