Alan Watts
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Biography: Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Adult: No
Deathday: November 16, 1973
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Play
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Conversation with Myself
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Art of Meditation
Overview: 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 viewers to different cultural approaches to meditation. Hartley then discusses how meditation enriches one's life, and what it can reveal to us.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-11
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Work as Play
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Zen Dog
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-25
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The Flow of Zen
Overview: 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 of Buddhism by focusing on how to develop greater flexibility and sensitivity to the beauty that surrounds us. His inspired narration, enhanced by beautiful photography and a musical score by Iasos, ensures that his message will last.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Until There Was Nothing
Overview: A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-01
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Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Buddhism, Man and Nature
Overview: Visualizes the mood of Buddhism as the oneness of man and nature. Includes commentary by Alan Watts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Zen and Now
Overview: Gently experimental film introducing Zen concepts, narrated by Alan Watts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Everything
Overview: 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 David O'Reilly video game of the same name, crafted as a short film with a narration by Alan Watts
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-11
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Time and the More It Changes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-14
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The Monkey Conflict
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-11
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