Poetic Documentary Movies

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is...

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...

Don't try to understand it. With an experimental visual aesthetic, Ninin invites you to reflect on the fleetingness of existence and the ephemeral...

A young filmmaker maintains an epistolary conversation with his deceased grandmother while he rediscovers the space they both inhabited for more than...

Syria. Among the ravages of war, there is also this more discreet yet vital phenomenon: exile. Leave, stay? A question Liwaa Jazji tackles. The place...

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed...

A poetic documentary about modern youth... the stories of kids, skaters, artists and musicians in a post soviet Georgia - a country in a distracted...

For two centuries, the Sycamore Gap tree stood as an iconic sentinel along Hadrian's Wall, shaping the landscape and lives of Northumberland. Its...

Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to...

An experimental film that reflects on the past, encourages audiences to live in the present and look into the future with optimism.

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

A short documentary that discusses gender and reconciling with the past.

A poetic documentary which explores the relationship between a person and their past, the autistic experience and the teenage sense of self.

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...