Poetic Documentary Movies

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematis...

A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo),Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered be...

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

Documentary portrait of the poet Karla Erbová is a confession of a creative personality who, despite many twists and turns in life, remains true to he...

On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary captur...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwar...

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 poignant journey through the vast expanses of a lonely desert, where one man must confront the shadows of his past of loss and find the strength to...

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

Women find empowerment behind the red nose and makeup, revealing the playful and subversive spirit of female clowning. Through poetic and intimate per...

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 200...

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 stare...

In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But comi...

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

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

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. Liv...

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...