Sentences with phrase «about human condition»

As I mentioned yesterday, positive psychology movies are not only the lighthearted films that inspire and elevate us but also the movies that teach us something about the human condition, help us face our suffering, and shine a light on pain and tragedy.

It's not trivial, because the people are mostly at the surface and much of the emotion in the topic is about the human condition.

Their various cases for experimental approaches to new energy sources reveal a fundamental optimism about the human condition, whereby every new existential threat is an opportunity in the making.

Ideal for youth and adults, FISH TANK, by Scott Bischke, is an insightful allegory about the human condition, tackling issues of politics and power, limited resources and climate change.

I never even GOT the apple / mac thing — these are cartoons about the human condition as it exists in certain creative males.

Evoking a feeling of senselessness and absurdity, the witty and macabre images carry with them strong statements about the human condition.

Once again we turn to the cinematic mirror to learn what we can about the human condition.

Their installations speak as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally.

In a circa 1989 interview with Jim Johnson, an art historian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colescott said he made the transition and dedicated himself to working with the figure and his imagination, «trying to say something about the human condition.»

The installations speak as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally.

Yet his is not emptiness refined into chic minimalism, but instead a sparseness that commands the space and speaks with dystopian pathos about the human condition in our present moment.

«His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.»

His peak was reached by 1980, and by then he had created a magisterial body of work, sensuous, always questing and probing, always saying something however obliquely about the human condition, the business of being alive, all set out in an exemplary exhibition two years ago at the Tate Gallery, memorably hung by Nicholas Serota and David Sylvester, one of de Kooning's earliest and best champions in Europe.

This desire to make photographs that tell a story and say something about the human condition is central to Broffman's approach to photography.

After winning the Artes Mundi prize for «work that stimulates thinking about the human condition» in 2010, Israeli filmmaker and artist Yael Bartana presented her latest project at the 2011 Venice Biennale — the first non-Polish artist to represent Poland at the major international art exhibition... And Europe Will Be Stunned, her film trilogy made between 2007 and 2011, will be on view for the first time in Canada in the AGO's Lind Gallery from Jan. 25 to April 1, 2012.

That story easily predates the written word by millennia, and yet in a format that only takes a few minutes to transmit orally, it converts A LOT Of wisdom about the human condition.

What does the female particularly express about our human condition?

By integrating drawing into his photographic and video works, the artist has not only made a lasting contribution to the field of art, but equally has made a powerful commentary about the human condition and its creative potential.

Stella sees it as essentially an autobiographical painting - one «more accurate about the personal costs inherent in the mechanics of painting than it is profound about the human condition in 16th - century Italy.»

Her use of traditional forms — weaving, knitting, sewing and stitching — may at first seem crafty, but there's always something more sinister, more undecided in her work which suggests other ideas about the human condition that go beyond our attraction to nature.

This subject matter — painted big and painted simple, or so they claimed — was as much about the human condition as any figurative self - portrait.

We are fragile, helpless and destined to die: Michal Rovner, a pioneering Israeli artist, addresses these ingrained truths about the human condition through photography, film, installation and video.

She deliberately juxtaposes objects whose scale, textures, or categories of use combine to make statements, at once biting and humorous, about the human condition.

Playing Super Meat Boy (Team Meat, 2010) isn't making us smarter and doesn't teach us anything about the human condition.

In a story about robots fighting one another, Nier: Automata had more to say about the human condition than anything else I played, watched, or read in 2017.

Meir Statman wants to tell us about the human condition.

During three decades of adulthood he produced some of the most perceptive and beautifully expressed observations about the human condition that the world has ever known.

Had he known, Hugentobler would have been forced to revise a few of his opinions about the human condition, and to hire a driver with a less elegant appearance but a more conventional résumé.

He was a pragmatist, convinced his professional instinct and experience would never mislead him about the human condition.

3) To enjoy a rich story about the human condition that includes friendship, love, religion, ambition, loss, aging and dying.

While much of Lent's writing is rich with insights about the human condition, those who prefer a more fast - paced read may find this detailed examination of daily living less than a page - turner.

Elizabeth Berg's fiction has been praised for its «brilliant insights about the human condition» (Detroit Free Press), and The Charlotte Observer has said that «Berg captures the way women think as well as any writer.

So the film is about the struggles of educators to create a successful inner city school that changes lives, but it's also about the people in the community and about the human condition.

It is sometimes good, though, to stop and watch a movie like Fruitvale Station, which raises questions about the human condition that are not easily answered.

«All I Want,» not to be confused with the recent Sharon Stone rom - com «All I Wish,» is a breezy, largely likable ensemble dramedy that, unfortunately, has little of consequence to impart about the human condition, seemingly the film's raison d'être.

Whereas in Up we begin by being overwhelmed with truths about the human condition, then descend into a comparative banality that improves as the film goes on, ending in a close approximation of the beauty of the prologue, in Inside Out we start with silly fun that threatens to go nowhere interesting, and then slowly move towards profound meditations on the meaning of life.

Ingmar Bergman («Autumn Sonata» / «Wild Strawberries» / «Fanny and Alexander») directs a darkly perceptive psychological drama about the human condition that exposes a dysfunctional family and its many unpleasant secrets.

At times it's strikingly perceptive about the human condition and has beautiful tender moments that are moving, but sinks in the slime at times from its grim tale and that studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck interfered by re-writing a Hollywood happy ending with

A kind of anti-Nicholas Sparks movie, in which good intentions unintentionally expose cracks in a union, Marc Forster's superficially trippy Thailand - set movie — peppered as it is with amorphous waves of shapes and colors meant to evoke the point of view of the sight - impaired — never plays like something that had to be made about the human condition.

At first glance, «Living Out Loud» is a brash and sassy comedy about the human condition.

«There's something so universal about the human condition of growing up with siblings and parents, with how we maneuver through the world over time — you can't not relate to it on some level, which means the response to this film has been fun and heartfelt and kind of beautiful,» Richard Linklater said of «Boyhood's» 12 year journey.

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, the beloved collection of poetic essays about the human condition, receives an animated treatment in the appropriately titled Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.

And love your life,» Krieps explains in the clip, while co-star Leslie Manville adds, «It's a film about human condition and how we all struggle to have something that makes us feel real and have purpose.»

With strong performances by a very intriguing cast, particularly by Kate Winslet, Little Children manages to overcome the obstacles of the artificiality of the characters and situations to deliver ultimate truths about the human condition, particularly in the lives of people who normally wouldn't make for interesting study.

What does it ultimately say about the human condition?

A film that burrows into you after its ended with its insightful truths about the human condition, Love After Love is strong in its resolve, lyrically composed and poetically captured.

It teaches us about the human condition, and what could possibly happen if the machines we create start to experience emotions.

Werner Herzog came charging out of the gates with a one - two punch of must see films about the human condition, Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Into the Abyss.

But Neil LaBute's made a career out of telling difficult truths about the human condition and human cruelty.

«That such a tender film about the human condition is nominated for an Academy Award — my first film in nearly two decades, and in a year where so many exceptional women are being honored for their work behind - the - camera — humbles me.