Poetic Documentary Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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