I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect on me, so bold and soothing at the same time. I feel deeply immersed in this world and I want to stay a bit to warm up.
On Yoga
The Architecture of Peace
Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the essence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples.
Alexey Kashpersky
The uncanny body
Why is it that looking at an open body causes such revulsion?
Robert Steven Connett
Miracles of life on display
The feelings provoked by Robert Steven Connett’s paintings vary widely. Some will see mostly the beautiful and the interesting, and others will see only the unsettling.
Viviane Sassen
Unfortunately Fashion
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.
Alexis R.
Embroidery of Autonomy
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
Lucyna Kolendo
Corpo Solido
Every day anew I am fascinated by the human form, my body. While looking at my trembling feet in a yoga pose, I wonder what this body is.
Breath of the Gods
The origins of modern Yoga
The documentary investigates the origins of modern yoga and presents especially Krishnamacharya’s life and teachings.
Wilhelm Reich
An introduction
This documentary is a great introduction to the world of Wilhelm Reich. A pioneer on so many levels. His holistic…
Peter Birkhäuser
Light from the Darkness
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
René Laloux
La planète sauvage
La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
Charles Fréger
Europe’s Wild Men
A primal heart still beats in Europe. Rural people all over the continent kept the connection to nature’s rhythm and celebrate the seasonal cycle. They invoke death but bestow fertile life.
Lawren Harris
Summit of the Soul
Lawren Harris was born into one of Canada’s wealthiest families and was destined for a life in aristocratic circles, yet he always felt more at home in the great outdoors.
Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
Polynesian Wayfinders
The knowledge of the ancestors
The ancient art of wayfinding is an almost forgotten skill once common throughout the Pacific.
Utopian Visionaries
Dostoevsky & Le Guin
These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.
Tom Killion
Californian Topophilia
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Marjorie Cameron
Songs for the Witch Woman
Cameron was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist who emerged as a key figure in the California counterculture movement in the 1950s and 60s.
J.D. Okhai Ojeikere
Sculptures for a day
J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere’s work captures the intersection of cultural tradition and personal expression.
Friedrich
Schröder Sonnenstern
Lunatic or Artist
After a tumultuous life, often in conflict with the law, including periods in psychiatric hospitals, the founding of a sect and practicing as a fortune teller and healer, he began to draw at the age of 57.
Pavel Tchelitchew
Bodies seen and unseen
Pavel Tchelitchew clearly was a seer of the unseen, a true visionary artist.
