Poetic Documentary Movies

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

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...

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is...

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

Women find empowerment behind the red nose and makeup, revealing the playful and subversive spirit of female clowning. Through poetic and intimate...

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

In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...

An insightful, personal, and heartfelt spotlight on Professor Jennifer Dorothy Lee of the School the of Art Institute of Chicago.

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....

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

In the depths of the tropical metropolis, where nature contends with concrete and silence is ceaselessly broken by invisible propellers and honking...

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...

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

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

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

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