Films
Travel
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‘It pulls you in’: the staff seduced by the rhythms of the Trans-Siberian railway
Directed by Anastasia Kirillova
Change and self-development
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His sight lost, the theologian John Hull found a new way to know the world
Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Music
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With quiet words and devotional music, Alice Coltrane sought transcendence
Directed by St Clair Bourne
Subcultures
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The steady drumbeat of life in the first free town in the Americas
Directed by Sebastián Pinzón Silva
Animals
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The zoo is a funhouse mirror that reflects and refracts the peculiarities of being human
Directed by Bert Haanstra
Artists and movements
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Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?
Directed by Taylor Rees
Creativity
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After years of hard work, three elders practise the arts of everyday life
Directed by Richard Kane and Dillon Bustin
Values and beliefs
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A sacred dream sends one man on the perilous trail of toxic honey in Nepal
Directed by Ben Knight
Sleep and dreams
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From landscape to dreamscape, using the medium of Hawaiian lava
Directed by Kurtis Hough
Meaning and the good life
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A boatbuilder above the Arctic Circle works hard at his epicurean life
Directed by Vern Cummins & Jamie Gallant
Transcendence and nature
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From the rhythms of the dying day to a cosmic journey of transformation
Directed by Simon Feat
Beauty and aesthetics
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The film that transformed New York into a ‘new form of visionary art’
Film made by Francis Thompson