Movies: Alan Watts

Trapped by daily routine, a man experiences complete freedom by dreaming himself across the country in a psychedelic Volkswagen with the guiding words of philosopher Alan Watts....

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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....

Alan Watts discusses the Western dichotomy of work and play, and explains that when you take the play out of work life becomes joyless drudgery....

Alan Watts illustrates in this elegant meditation on Buddhism the nature of reality using the paradigm of flowing water. It is one of his best. "The waters before and the waters after, now and forever flowing, follow each other." Watts conveys the e...

A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole....

It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's kind of a philosophy project in the form of a game. There is no narrative or story - just the world as it is. Everything: Gameplay Film is an overview of...

This short film takes place in a world that is moving way too fast, a world riddled with overwhelming anxiety and doubt regarding our meaning and belonging. Our protagonist struggles to cope with this all too familiar fate, and yearns to have the uni...

A memorial anthology of Alan Watt's work. Watts (1915-1973), who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general....

Gently experimental film introducing Zen concepts, narrated by Alan Watts....

Visualizes the mood of Buddhism as the oneness of man and nature. Includes commentary by Alan Watts....

Taped by his son shortly before Watts' death, this program captures the noted philosopher/mystic's ideas on the meaning of time and change, if they have meaning at all....