Surrogates explores a world in which humans have no direct social contact with each other, instead using artificial proxies for all of their interactions.
A teacher's attempt to demonstrate the perils of dictatorship gets out of control, as his students become swept up in a wave of groupthink and compliance.
A mysterious condition systematically shuts down an artist's autonomic functions, as he steadily blurs the line between reality and the world of his play.
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's becomes challenged by his own perceptions and memories of their shared experience.
After a mortal accident, in the last seconds of his life, a boy "dreams" about himself, his life and his lover in a surrealistic expansion of space, time, logic
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles, highlighting human motivational factors, decision making, racism, and other social cognition themes.
A cinematic take on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. Shows how fast and dramatically can people change in different environments.
Teenage geniouses are fooled into developing a weapon for the government in this quirky comedy. Also explores themes of social isolation and academic pressure.
Is it most human to be viscerally aware of non-human nature (the forest, the weather), or most human to be embedded in human institutions and technology?