Wittgenstein Plays Chess with Marcel Duchamp, or How Not to Do Philosophy
2020 · 17 min · ★ 7.0 · Animation
The project attempts to push the boundaries of cinema by juxtaposing it with ideas from philosophy, visual art, chess, mathematics, geometry, linguistics and psychology
Directed by Amit Dutta · Written by Amit Dutta
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