Alan Watts

The Monkey Conflict (2024)

Until There Was Nothing (2020)

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

Play (2018)

A dance music theatre piece that evokes the world of childhood and its careless pleasures. But beyond pure entertainment, this performance contemplates the meaning and the importance of play when we become adults. World stage premiere dec 7 2017, Paris. ...

Everything (2017)

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. ...

Zen Dog (2016)

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. ...

Zen: The Best of Alan Watts (1994)

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. ...

Work as Play (1973)

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. ...

Time and the More It Changes (1972)

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. ...

Conversation with Myself (1972)

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. ...

The Art of Meditation (1971)

This VHS video includes two short documentaries by Elda Hartley. In the first, THE ART OF MEDITATION, Alan Watts gives us techniques and advice for meditating. Elda Hartley herself narrates the second film, MEDITATION: THE JOURNEY INWARD, which exposes vie ...

The Flow of Zen (1969)

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 essence ...

Zen and Now (1969)

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

Buddhism, Man and Nature (1968)

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

The Great Stream (2024)

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 universe ...