Victim of the Brain (1988)

Directed by

Piet Hoenderdos

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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