Movies: Poetic documentary
- 1921
Manhatta (1921)
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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...
- 1961
Zoo (1961)
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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...
- 1928
The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra (1928)
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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....
- 2024
The Boy of The Fish (2024)
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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...
- 1964
Faces of November (1964)
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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....
- 1958
Glass (1958)
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This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especial...
- 2024
A Bad Name (2024)
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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.”...
- 1956
Recreation (1956)
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Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry....
- 2024
Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs (2024)
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A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity....
- 1929
Skyscraper Symphony (1929)
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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...
- 1966
Chanson de gestes (1966)
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Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective....
- 2020
Eternity Interrupted (2020)
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The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality....
- 2023
MARCIANO (2023)
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- 2014
End of Summer (2014)
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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 ...
- 1969
Con Traje y Sin Zapatos (1969)
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- 2021
Pick up the Wind (2021)
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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 his daily life as he interacts with different forms of environmental, familial, and social influences. Whil...
- 2024
The Noise of Time (2024)
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In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still celebrates its most important festivities, but also learns that the construction of a new commercial com...
- 2024
Exílio (2024)
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- 1929
Rain (1929)
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A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower....
- 2019
The Scars (2019)
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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 ...