Gurdjieff Videos

Gurdjieff Videos offers videos on the teaching of The Fourth Way. Also included are videos that relate to the teaching in the context of the present times.


AWARD-WINNING VIDEO DOCUMENTARY TRILOGY:
THE LIFE & SIGNIFICANCE OF: G. I. GURDJIEFF.

 
Each part is self-contained but also builds on the previous part.


The Life & Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Part III — Gurdjieff's Legacy: Establishing The Teaching in the West, 1924–1949
Created and narrated by William Patrick Patterson

Winner of the WorldFest 2003 Gold Special Jury Award for Outstanding Excellence

Shot on site in Paris, Avon, Mont. St. Michel, Lascaux, London, New York, and New Haven, the documentary traces Gurdjieff's life from his near-fatal car crash through to his giving meetings during the Nazi-occupation of Paris to his death in 1949. Examined in depth are the writing of his Legominism All and Everything and his relationships with Orage, Ouspensky and Bennett. Also included is the Rope and his final trip to the Caves of Lascaux.
$30.00, DVD and VHS—NTSC format, color, 86 minutes.

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The Life & Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Part II — Gurdjieff's Mission: Introducing The Fourth Way to the West, 1912–1924
Created and narrated by William Patrick Patterson

Winner of the WorldFest 2002 Gold Special Jury Award for Outstanding Excellence

Shot on site in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Constantinople, London, Fontainebleau-en-Avon, New York and Lascaux, this documentary video - narrated by William Patrick Patterson and based on his book 'Struggle of the Magicians' - retraces Gurdjieff's mission to introduce the teaching to the West. P.D. Ouspensky's and J.G. Bennett's enigmatic relationships with Gurdjieff are explored. Particularly stressed are the "St. Petersburg Conditions" and Gurdjieff's technique of "divine acting." The video vividly demonstrates Gurdjieff's warning to America of the rise and challenge of the East with footage recalling the 9/11 attack and its aftermath.
$30.00, DVD and VHS—NTSC formats, color, 80 minutes.

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The Life & Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Part I — Gurdjieff in Egypt: The Origin of Esoteric Knowledge
Created and narrated by William Patrick Patterson

Winner of the WorldFest 2000 Gold Award

Follows Gurdjieff's search for pre-sand Egypt, beginning with the Sphinx and Great Pyramid, to Thebes and the Temple in Man and Karnak, to the Valley of the Kings, the Temples of Edfu and Abu Simbel, and into Ethiopia where he unexpectedly discovers the origin of the ancient teaching of The Fourth Way.
$30.00, DVD and VHS—NTSC/PAL formats, color, 60 minutes.

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More Videos

Sri Ramana Maharshi: The Archival Films 1935–50
Silent except for two newsreel soundtracks. Archival research booklet included. Films of Ramana Maharshi's devotees taken over the years at Sri Ramanasraman and the sacred hill of Arunachala. Among the devotees seen are Miss Ethel Merston, an early English student of Gurdjieff's and Guy Hague who is believed to be the model for Larry in Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge.
$30.00, VHS, 65 min. Color and black & white.


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