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Psyche’s most popular Ideas, Guides and Films
![A film still of a man in a black suit airborne above a white staircase under bright stage lights against a dark background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/c8ac31f5-67f6-4a31-bd4a-90deac6d77f8/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Dance
film
How the acrobat and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois plays with gravity and time
Directed by Raphael Wertheimer
![Close-up of an older man in a flat cap and scarf, looking out over a misty rural landscape with blurred farmland in the background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/03020a2e-4604-4ed8-a416-3268fd2014f5/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Poetry
film
Irish hills, folk music and David Whyte’s poetry form a fleeting, meditative moment
Directed by Andrew Hinton
![Photo of a woman submerged to the neck in a natural hot spring, with mountains and mist in the background, creating a serene atmospheric scene.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/7827ea95-ad28-4a6b-b363-cac6ca94a92a/original.jpg?top=6&left=0&cropWidth=2992&cropHeight=1683&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Photography
film
One photo per day for more than a year, exploring how rituals affect memory
Directed by Scott Thrift
![A night scene with a warmly lit cabin in the woods. An elderly person is inside, visible through large glass windows.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/33f4d609-d87a-48b7-b4f9-52d8432014da/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Architecture
film
From modernist architect, to a life off-grid, a creative life well-lived
Directed by Ryan Malloy
![Abstract watercolour painting of figures walking in different directions on a white background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/e54af4a6-7add-45ac-90db-ff221b4d2a5f/original.jpg?top=6&left=0&cropWidth=2992&cropHeight=1683&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Play
film
An Oscar-nominated animation that celebrates walking with humans
Directed by Ryan Larkin
![Close-up of a colourful, abstract wool sculpture resembling a face with various textures and fibres extending outward.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/768f3283-cf3a-4006-98c2-6afef25d39ac/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Love
film
Making love strange to imagine it anew – a startling, award-winning animation
Directed by Anushka Naanayakkara
![A man sitting on a chair in a lush garden with blooming flowers, a cobbled path, and a red garden shed in the background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/362c7dc9-c370-4dd3-8f98-dd0d4f7135df/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Pleasures and pastimes
film
A club for ‘dull men’ may just inspire you to see the unremarkable anew
Directed by Andy Oxley
![A sailboat on a calm lake at dusk with snow-capped mountains in the background under a cloudy sky.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/a5ef30d8-c021-4692-9af5-82467d2702e5/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Meaning and the good life
film
A boatbuilder above the Arctic Circle works hard at his epicurean life
Directed by Vern Cummins & Jamie Gallant
![Colourful pointillistic painting of four figures in patterned clothing on a landscape with trees, likely representing rural life.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/73c40161-1e81-4c5f-859a-455fb477bf1a/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Traditional arts
film
A joyously animated myth retells why painting is prayer to India’s Bhil people
A film by Nina Sabnani and Sher Singh Bhil
![A young person dancing with arms extended and hair flying, seen from below, with sky background. Two other excited people watch.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/9e64c432-f935-4e5d-a4ad-7560a9995599/original.jpg?top=6&left=0&cropWidth=2992&cropHeight=1683&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Dance
film
A street dance born amid poverty and violence offers a radical form of self-care
Directed by Maceo Frost
![A knitted grey toy mouse holds a needle and repairs its own dress. Three balls of yarn lie nearby, alongside a small blue open book.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/3c1bf35e-c897-4ab4-9833-fcb77a47c43d/visible-mending-landscape-1.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Pleasures and pastimes
film
A whimsical ode to the reparative power of knitting, rendered in wool
Directed by Samantha Moore
![A woman with her hair up looking out of a train window, resting her chin on her hand. The outside view is white and indistinct.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/c6f1ea4f-bdb8-40bf-80a3-01dee96e4d85/original.jpg?top=21&left=0&cropWidth=2000&cropHeight=1125&width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Travel
film
‘It pulls you in’: the staff seduced by the rhythms of the Trans-Siberian railway
Directed by Anastasia Kirillova