Poetic Documentary Movies

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...

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

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

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning...

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,...

What is the Art of Living ? A few weeks ago, I asked myself this question, as silly in its formality as it is complicated in its complexity. In this...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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