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Black and white photo of an elderly man with glasses and a moustache wearing a suit, sitting in a patterned chair.

THINKERS AND THEORIES

‘Man cannot stand a meaningless life’ – a conversation with Carl Jung at 84

Video by Face to Face

A film still of a man in a black suit airborne above a white staircase under bright stage lights against a dark background.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PLEASURES AND PASTIMES

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.

MEANING AND THE GOOD LIFE

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.

TRADITIONAL ARTS

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.

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.

PLEASURES AND PASTIMES

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.

‘It pulls you in’: the staff seduced by the rhythms of the Trans-Siberian railway

Directed by Anastasia Kirillova

Open book with sketches of a handgun on the left page and a peach with geometric lines on the right page, on a dark surface.

An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’

Directed by Anna Samo and Lisa LaBracio

Black-and-white photo of two judokas; one is throwing the other who is airborne with legs up, set against a wooden background.

SPORTS AND GAMES

Softness controls hardness – a fighter’s gentle approach to life

Directed by Josef Reeve

A woman in a black swimsuit is submerged underwater, with her head down and hair floating gently around her.

Exquisite subaquatic choreography stretches the limits of mind and body

Directed by Julie Gautier