Observational Cinema Movies

Short experimental film that captures glimpses of everyday reality and, in this process, encourages the viewer to poetically observe these details.

A construction of obscured VHS footage. A distortion of childhood memories.

A tender moment between a woman and her grandchild.

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and...

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

This film is an exercise in observational cinema and it's emotional effect on the viewer. Shot on iPhone 11 and completed within a two hour timeframe.

A mixture of documentary and fiction as seen through the eyes of a non-participant observer, this drama presents the life of the fisherman Maldonado....

Udin, a young boy, drifts through his quiet routines inside an old bus yet within him he carries a world far heavier than his years.

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.

In a near future shaped by a five-degree rise in global temperature, Raj moves through a flooded Singapore, his body already showing signs of...

A quasi-documentary look at how certain things fit together. This film embraces an unhurried tempo.

A nighttime montage of strangers drifting through the city, People Like Ghosts is an experimental visual poem exploring modern isolation, silent...

On a psychedelic night, the protagonist speaks endlessly to his friends, friends we never hear. Beneath his loud, crude monologue, a different figure...

Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

Reya’s World delves into the raw and poignant struggle of a young woman navigating the depths of depression. Feeling trapped in a seemingly...