Victim of the Brain (1988)
- Directed by
- Piet Hoenderdos
- Genre
- Drama
- Country
- Netherlands
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Dutch film that mixes interviews with philosopher Douglas Hofstadter with dramatized adaptations of stories about consciousness and identity. It explores questions about the mind and self through a series of conversational vignettes and fictional scenarios.
thought-provokingphilosophicalintellectualwhimsicaldiscursiveretroconversational
What happens
Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based on The Mind's I (1981), a compilation of texts and stories on the philosophy of mind and self, co-edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The film weaves interviews with Hofstadter with adaptations of several works in the book: Dennett's Where am I?, The Soul of the Mark III Beast by Terrel Miedaner, and also the short story The Seventh Sally: How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good from The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem. The film was shown several times on television in the Netherlands in the late 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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