Poetic Documentary Movies

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.

A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and...

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 video poem about a house. The home, or at least its foundations, are what evoke memories of that childhood, now lost in time.

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 lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

Miška is 20 years old, and she has a dream of living in Prague. While coming along her journey, we find out more about her mental health and...

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall...

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

One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.

A rural town in Ireland swells to a population of half a million for one week during the world’s largest annual celebration of Irish music,...

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

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

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