Poetic Documentary Movies

The camera floats quietly to capture the beauty that emerges from the mundane. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition, Arseny Tarkovsky's poem...

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

On the creative collaboration and friendship between the staff and students of a children's music school in Leningrad and organ master Justin...

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

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

Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to...

Fragments from Brussels, about the flow of the city, A cinema, A body, A film, and a wind that blows through the town. The film is a Schizomentry...

A story of The Map and The Territory. Shot in BC, California, and Nevada. Original music by Tashi Townley, Jack Brintnell, Luc Wiebe, and George Lee.

An ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence, displayed through the homegrown remedies...

Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...

A short film on breathing and quiet afternoons.

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...

Tales are told of a cursed DVD that disintegrates the viewer's reality, casting them into a spiritual void. This DVD is called "Breath of Knees."...

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of...

The study of the artistic work and its relationship with the author generates reflections on the connection between the material and the spiritual....

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...

A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts...