Films, artists, thinkers, and makers who influence the practice. ## Films I've Watched - **[[The Zone of interest]]** — Jonathan Glazer's chilling study of bureaucratic evil: a commandant's comfortable domestic life set against the unseen horror of Auschwitz. - **[[Coup 53]]** — A revelatory documentary on the 1953 Iranian coup, praised by Mike Leigh as "one of the greatest of all documentaries." - **[[Embrace Of The Serpent]]** — Ciro Guerra's Amazon-set drama intertwining two journeys of discovery inspired by real ethnologists' journals. - **[[The Matrix]]** — The Wachowskis' allegory of humanity's surrender to comfort and technological dependency at the cost of freedom and authentic existence. - **[[2001 - A Space Odyssey]]** — Kubrick's meditation on the monolith and the limits of imagining the unimaginable. - **[[Parasite]]** — Bong Joon-ho's taut class satire about two families bound together by deception and desire. - **[[Her (film)|Her]]** — Spike Jonze's tender, melancholy portrait of loneliness and intimacy in a near-future Los Angeles. - **[[Avatar]]** — Read through a phenomenological lens on embodied experience and the mind-body divide. - **[[Bladerunner]]** — Ridley Scott's noir vision of what it means to be human in a world of replicants. - **[[Nosferatu]]** — Robert Eggers' gothic reimagining of the vampire myth. - **[[Anora]]** — Sean Baker's sharp, dark comedy of aspiration and collision. - **[[Strange Days]]** — Kathryn Bigelow's cyber-noir thriller on memory, technology, and violence. - **[[Buy Now - The Shopping Conspiracy]]** — A documentary exposing the psychological manipulation behind modern consumer culture. - **[[Traffik]]** — A 1989 British miniseries tracing the global heroin trade from poppy fields to European streets. - **[[Wilder (Film)|Wilder]]** — A moving account of re-wilding and how nature heals landscapes our culture has neglected. ## Creators A living index of the writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and thinkers whose work informs this practice. Browse the full collection at [#Creators] or explore by discipline: - Writers & poets — [[Kafka]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Mary Oliver]], [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], [[William Blake]] - Visual artists — [[Jackson Pollock]], [[Mark Rothko]], [[Yayoi Kusama]], [[David Hockney]], [[Lucian Freud]], [[Willem de Kooning]] - Philosophers & theorists — [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Michel Foucault]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[Hannah Arendt]], [[Slavoj Žižek]] - Scientists & ecologists — [[Robin Wall Kimmerer]], [[Merlin Sheldrake]], [[Dave Goulson]], [[Isabella Tree]], [[Robert Sapolsky]] - Thinkers on power & politics — [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Naomi Klein]], [[David Graeber]], [[George Orwell]], [[John Pilger]] --- _Films appear here once their note is marked `Watched`; creators are drawn from the `Creators` tag._