Poetic Documentary Movies

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...

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

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.

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

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

By letting go of the urge to control and embracing the unexpected, the creative process finds a new pulse. Thus, Gut Knows What Mind Does Not...

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...

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

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

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

"No Refunds" is a visceral, tangled descent into the transactional dynamics of intimate encounters, told through the language of bodies, sheets, and...

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

Filmed during lockdown 2020, ‘de Luz/Of Light’ explores fleeting perceptions and cyclic rituals of Portuguese coastal landscapes,...