Metaphysical Movies. He’s doubly cursed — a beef farmer in the UK, and a Ph. D. in phenomenological philosophy. But he’s made a self-financed short film, Krasny — with characterization and plot, no less (although they sound bizarre, involving an investigation into a strange cult) — that serves as a dense pedagogical tool to convey abstract philosophical concepts about perception, subjectivity and the relationship between mind and ‘external reality’. The essayist comments on the treatment of similar themes in The Matrix last year. The Philosophers’ Magazine