From the Labour of Baruch d'Espinoza

(1973)

Year: 1973

Runtime: 32 мин

Country: Netherlands

Director: Frans van de Staak

Plot

From Spinoza's Ethica 82 sentences were selected without a strict coherence and re-assembled in seven components. Each component was filmed four times at least, in a different setting with different actors. Spinoza's sentences are taken as dialogues 'tout court', and not as a collection of opinions. Spinoza's style of philosophical thinking is presented as an activity in the first place, which is then revealed by each individual actor in his own way.