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 short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of...

Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to...

Fragments from Brussels, about the flow of the city, A cinema, A body, A film, and a wind that blows through the town. The film is a Schizomentry...

An ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence, displayed through the homegrown remedies...

The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone...

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

A poetic documentary viewing the shared experience amongst people who have experienced loss.

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

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down 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...

A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts...

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

Dating back to the 1800s, Birmingham’s roller skating scene is a flourishing, diverse community - but it lacks dedicated spaces. This...

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

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

Meditative and quiet movie about transphormations of Dnipro river in Ukraine, that touches theme of collective versus individual rights, filmed in...