Movies: Poetic documentary

  • 2024
    The Boy of The Fish

    The Boy of The Fish (2024)

    The Boy of The Fish

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    "The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of res...

    The Boy of The Fish
  • 2023
    A Little Love

    A Little Love (2023)

    A Little Love

    102023HD

    Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of love, what it means, and why it matters....

    A Little Love
  • 2024
    A Bad Name

    A Bad Name (2024)

    A Bad Name

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    Two street artists with contrasting intentions about the artform tell the relevance of street art in society while accompanied by an enigmatic graffiti writing, “Bon Jovi.”...

    A Bad Name
  • 1979
    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life (1979)

    The Taste of Life

    01979HD

    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 could see young people standing with their bicycles on street corners, in fact, if the bicycles where t...

    The Taste of Life
  • 2024
    Tudo é tarde

    Tudo é tarde (2024)

    Tudo é tarde

    02024HD

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    Tudo é tarde
  • 1961
    Zoo

    Zoo (1961)

    Zoo

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    A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered between human and animal. Particularly the manner in which human and ape are confronted with each othe...

    Zoo
  • 2023
    The Crying of the Sea

    The Crying of the Sea (2023)

    The Crying of the Sea

    02023HD

    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 call themselves predators of the sea until one day they became unable to kill a sea turtle. Submerged i...

    The Crying of the Sea
  • 1929
    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony (1929)

    Skyscraper Symphony

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    A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid shots, which also begin to show more and more of the surrounding city, in a...

    Skyscraper Symphony
  • 2025
    se um dia eu morrer, não me deixe às traças

    se um dia eu morrer, não me deixe às traças (2025)

    se um dia eu morrer, não me deixe às traças

    02025HD

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    se um dia eu morrer, não me deixe às traças
  • 1952
    Panta Rhei

    Panta Rhei (1952)

    Panta Rhei

    6.21952HD

    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 reflect Haanstra's own moods....

    Panta Rhei
  • 2014
    End of Summer

    End of Summer (2014)

    End of Summer

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    A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and white super 8 film as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days ...

    End of Summer
  • 1928
    The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra (1928)

    The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra

    6.51928HD

    This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead....

    The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra
  • 2025
    Kitchen Dialogue

    Kitchen Dialogue (2025)

    Kitchen Dialogue

    02025HD

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

    Kitchen Dialogue
  • 2019
    The Scars

    The Scars (2019)

    The Scars

    102019HD

    The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the ...

    The Scars
  • 1930
    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray (1930)

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    5.01930HD

    This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements. Created in 1930, th...

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray
  • 2024
    Entre a Lei e a Luta

    Entre a Lei e a Luta (2024)

    Entre a Lei e a Luta

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    Entre a Lei e a Luta
  • 1964
    Faces of November

    Faces of November (1964)

    Faces of November

    6.21964HD

    Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002....

    Faces of November
  • 2019
    Douro - Symphony of a river

    Douro - Symphony of a river (2019)

    Douro - Symphony of a river

    02019HD

    From high up in the glacier-carved mountains of Northern Spain, towards the Atlantic Ocean in the cities of Porto and V.N.Gaia in Northern Portugal. A journey through a river and through sound....

    Douro - Symphony of a river
  • 1969
    Breath of Knees

    Breath of Knees (1969)

    Breath of Knees

    01969HD

    Tales are told of a cursed DVD that disintegrates the viewer's reality, casting them into a spiritual void. This DVD is called "Breath of Knees." This video documentary investigates the pure horror of this mystery....

    Breath of Knees
  • 1988
    Dream

    Dream (1988)

    Dream

    01988HD

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

    Dream