Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness

Released Sep 24, 2021

1h 42m

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What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? Why are we predisposed for mystical experience? And what happens when we die? AWARE follows six brilliant researchers approaching the mystery from radically different perspectives, opening as a science film but emerging beyond the explicable.

Bilge Ebiri

Spirituality & Health

Ultimately, we get a touching portrait of a variety of different human beings all circling around the fascinating, perhaps unsolvable, problem of the mind.

Nov 12, 2021

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

It certainly offers some consciousness-elevating food for thought, but "Aware" will unlikely be everyone's cup of enlightenment.

Sep 24, 2021

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

'Aware' will leave you feeling like you've unlocked a cheat code for a new level of otherworldly understanding.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 11, 2021

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Bradley Gibson

Film Threat

The film surfaces existential mysteries at the core of the human experience in an entertaining and enlightening fashion.

Rated: 7/10

Oct 5, 2021

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Leslie Combemale

AWFJ.org

With Aware, Sandig and Black show us some brilliant people getting closer to figuring out something essential to us all.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 5, 2021

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Valerie Kalfrin

AWFJ.org

The documentary Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness is a heady experience - dare I say spiritual? - that stirs feelings of awe and wonder, humility and connection. ... It's a remarkable film.

Sep 30, 2021

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Johan T

Love the way consciousness is explained and have similar experiences myself.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/11/22

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dominique f

Aware asks some interesting questions and offers quite beautiful images. It is, however, frustratingly uninformative, and superficial. Surely, the "ocean of consciousness" (quote from trailer) is vast, yet Aware misses every opportunity to wet more than its feet. The "six brilliant researchers" (quote from trailer) must have been carefully selected according to their openness to esotericism – and drugs. Ready to pose for the camera as thoughtful and inspirational thinkers, the researchers are merely quoted for swollen aphorisms about life (one promising exception is the initial interview with Monica Gagliano which turns out to be but a tease; for the rest of the interviews do not even try to provide insightful information). Halfway into the movie, the director completely loses his focus; the topic now: drugs. But, of course, not from an educational perspective. Rather, all we get to hear are shallow personal reports about how hallucinogenic substances "open the door" (quote from one of the researchers). Thus, carried by stunning images, Aware leaves its audience frustratingly unsatisfied by asking big questions but providing merely superficial, uninformative answers.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

I was simply blown away by this film. So much so that I had to watch it three times. It is really an epic film and deals with our deepest questions about life and our relationship to the world around us.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Synopsis

What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? Why are we predisposed for mystical experience? And what happens when we die? AWARE follows six brilliant researchers approaching the mystery from radically different perspectives, opening as a science film but emerging beyond the explicable.

Director: Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
Producer: Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
Screenwriter: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
Distributor: Area 23a Films
Production Co: Hanfgarn & Ufer Film und TV Produktion, ZDF / 3sat
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 2021, Limited
Runtime: 1h 42m

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