Movies: Poetic documentary

  • 1983
    Sans Soleil

    Sans Soleil (1983)

    Sans Soleil

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    A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco....

    Sans Soleil
  • 1983
    Koyaanisqatsi

    Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

    Koyaanisqatsi

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    Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and...

    Koyaanisqatsi
  • 2011
    Samsara

    Samsara (2011)

    Samsara

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    Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders....

    Samsara
  • 1992
    Baraka

    Baraka (1992)

    Baraka

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    A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life....

    Baraka
  • 1996
    Microcosmos

    Microcosmos (1996)

    Microcosmos

    7.51996HD

    A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentless...

    Microcosmos
  • 1938
    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations (1938)

    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

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    Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. This first half of her two-part film opens with a renowned introduction that compares modern Olympians ...

    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
  • 1988
    Powaqqatsi

    Powaqqatsi (1988)

    Powaqqatsi

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    An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them....

    Powaqqatsi
  • 2002
    Naqoyqatsi

    Naqoyqatsi (2002)

    Naqoyqatsi

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    A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence....

    Naqoyqatsi
  • 1938
    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty (1938)

    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

    6.71938HD

    Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Where the two-part epic's first half, Festival of the Nations, focused on the international aspects of ...

    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
  • 2011
    Life in a Day

    Life in a Day (2011)

    Life in a Day

    7.22011HD

    A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010....

    Life in a Day
  • 2023
    The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

    The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (2023)

    The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

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    May Pang lovingly recounts her life in rock & roll and the whirlwind 18 months spent as friend, lover, and confidante to one of the towering figures of popular culture, John Lennon, in this funny, touching, and vibrant portrait of first love....

    The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
  • 1927
    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    7.51927HD

    A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War,...

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
  • 1930
    À propos de Nice

    À propos de Nice (1930)

    À propos de Nice

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    What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants....

    À propos de Nice
  • 2024
    Terpsichore

    Terpsichore (2024)

    Terpsichore

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    Terpsichore is a captivating exploration of dance as an art form, illuminating the passion, discipline, and vulnerability that transform movement into poetry. The documentary follows three distinct yet interconnected artists: Cece Trapani, an Irish d...

    Terpsichore
  • 2024
    Avant-Drag!

    Avant-Drag! (2024)

    Avant-Drag!

    7.22024HD

    Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot hou...

    Avant-Drag!
  • 2025
    Messengers

    Messengers (2025)

    Messengers

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    A poetic exploration of three subterranean telescopes in remote regions of Canada, Japan, and Antarctica that reveal a new way of perceiving the universe from within. Underground, we are dreaming into the earth....

    Messengers
  • 1985
    Chronos

    Chronos (1985)

    Chronos

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    Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions....

    Chronos
  • 2023
    WINHANGANHA

    WINHANGANHA (2023)

    WINHANGANHA

    02023HD

    WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) - is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is an examination of how archives and the legacies of collection affect First Nations people and wider A...

    WINHANGANHA
  • 1921
    Manhatta

    Manhatta (1921)

    Manhatta

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    Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and s...

    Manhatta
  • 2024
    The Pool

    The Pool (2024)

    The Pool

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    Bondi Icebergs is the most photographed pool in the world. This is where generations of children have learnt to swim, where the diehard have braved the frigid waters of one hundred winters, where the young and beautiful have come to bond and bake in ...

    The Pool