Films about creative thinking
Seven ways a person gets to an idea
Seven lists of films about the work itself: inventors and engineers, limits that turn out to help, obsession with the craft, a change of viewpoint, the block when nothing comes, making it together with other people, and the documentaries about all of it.
- 01 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Inventors and engineers Films about people who were solving a specific problem and, along the way, invented something that had not existed before.
- 02 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Limits that help Films where the hero is locked inside hard limits: time, space, and whatever objects happen to be at hand.
- 03 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Obsessed with the craft About people for whom the quality of the work became more important than everything else, themselves included.
- 04 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: A change of viewpoint Films where nothing changes except the way of looking, and that turns out to be enough.
- 05 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: When nothing comes About the state where you have to work and it will not come, and about what people do with it.
- 06 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Making it together About ideas that cannot be had alone, and about how a team is assembled around a problem.
- 07 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Documentaries There is no script here: real masters talking about their work.
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