Poetic Documentary Movies

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

Sharing is a documentary that will show the process of building a video dance performed by four female artists who have a connection not only with...

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...

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....

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

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 poetic documentary in which the narrator must grapple with the grief and emotions following the death of a close friend.

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present...

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

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

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...

A day in a retirement home.

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...

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

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