Poetic Documentary Movies

The second half of Gustav Deutsch's experimental Film ist. series, constructing new narratives and moods out of existing footage, mostly from early...

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

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...

An encounter with the last shamans of Bolivia's Beni River Valley brings the audience on an intimate spiritual journey through the Amazon Rainforest....

Ibuka follows Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple, at the very beginning of the civil war and the massacres that swept through Rwanda in 1994....

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

Through an unsent letter, the author travels through time and recalls moments when love affected him intensely. Evocative images explore how pain and...

An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

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

A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...

A travelogue in stillness and a parable of the map and the territory. Shot in BC, California, and Nevada. With original music by Tashi Townley, Jack...

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."...

An introspective journey through the silent language of architecture, "Sensuousness" presents an evocative tapestry of black-and-white imagery. Each...

A day in a retirement home.