Watch list
Worth watching twice.
Films, documentaries, and short videos on mathematics, science, and the ideas that stay with you.
Films & Documentaries
Feature films and documentary films worth watching carefully.
Documentary · Film
Jodorowsky’s Dune
The greatest film never made — Moebius, Giger, Pink Floyd, Dalí, and a 3,000-page storyboard that reshaped science fiction without ever reaching the screen.
Film · Mathematics
Good Will Hunting
A janitor at MIT solves a research-level math problem in chalk on a hallway wall. The film is entirely uninterested in the mathematics.
Film · Mathematics
Stand and Deliver
The testing board assumed they cheated. The students re-sat the exam. They passed again. This time no one said anything.
Documentary
A tree on a barge, crossing the Black Sea
Salomé Jashi's documentary on a billionaire who collected ancient trees — uprooted, shipped, replanted.
Film · Movie
Los Cronocrímenes
One nervous man. One hour. A bathtub full of white liquid. Nacho Vigalondo's trap is airtight.
Film · Movie
Rushmore
Max Fischer is failing every class. He is also the founder of eleven clubs. Wes Anderson's best argument that how you spend your attention is who you are.
Videos
Short films, visualizations, and experiments worth returning to.
Video · Design · Art
Real Time: Sweeper's Clock
Two men spend twelve hours pushing debris around an empty floor. The result is a working clock, and a precise argument about labor and time.
Mathematics · Television
Mr. Finch Explains Pi to a Classroom
Harold Finch steps to a chalkboard in Person of Interest S02E11 and delivers one of the most moving speeches about mathematics ever written for American television.
Book · Kinetic Design
The Page That Moves Without Power
Two layers of printed lines. One transparent film. No battery, no code — slide it across the page and the geometry comes alive. Takahiro Kurashima's Poemotion, 2011.
Data · Visualization
Kung Fu Motion Visualization
Tobias Gremmler turned motion-capture data from Kung Fu masters into five moving sculptures. Veri heykel oldu; zaman kumaş, hız madde.
Physics · Synchronization
32 Metronomes and the Strange Sympathy
Start 32 metronomes at different times and walk away. Within minutes, every single one ticks together. Huygens saw it in 1665.
Physics · Music
Cymatics: Sound Has a Shape
Nigel Stanford wrote the music last — after the physics decided the notes.
Physics · Football
The Physics of Roberto Carlos's Free Kick
136 km/h, 14 revolutions per second. Four French physicists spent 13 years explaining what happened next.
Video
Ode to a Flower
In two minutes, Feynman dismantles the idea that science strips nature of beauty. Understanding a flower doesn't subtract from it — it multiplies.
Video · Nature
The Owl That Isn’t There
Three overlapping noise-cancellation systems, sixty million years in the making. A bird crosses a field at night, and the air keeps its secret.
Video · Meditation
A Drawing That Erases Itself
Yuki Kawae spends hours raking patterns into a sand garden in his apartment, then smooths them away. 23 minutes. No narration. The calculations stop.
Video · History
Two Thousand Flashes on a Map
Every nuclear detonation in human history, 1945–2010. Fourteen minutes. The accumulation is the argument.
Video · Stop-Motion
The Matchstick That Refused to Be Still
One object, one surface, no special effects. Tomohiro Okazaki turns the most resolved object in the world into a stop-motion study of transformation.