The Opus Path
You are not born finished.
You are made.
Films on the oldest project there is: building yourself. From the Stoics, the alchemists, the cathedral builders and the masters of the Renaissance.
Joseph Wright of Derby, The Alchemist, 1771
The Great Work
Every real change passes through four colours
The alchemists called it the Magnum Opus. The best of them believed that what happens in the vessel also happens to the one who watches it.
Nigredo
Something ends.
Albedo
The storm clears.
Citrinitas
The fire returns.
Rubedo
The work goes out into the world.
12 questions · about 3 minutes
About
Old methods for a modern life
Discipline is the foundation. Transformation is the process. Your life is the Magnum Opus.
Every film is built from primary sources and public-domain art from the world's great museums. Nothing is quoted that we cannot show you on the page.