From the Labour of Baruch d'Espinoza

Uit het werk van Baruch d'Espinoza 1632-1677

1973·32'

Frans van de Staak

Nederland

Letterboxd TMDB #494620

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.