Poetic Documentary Movies
- 2024
Avant-Drag!
Avant-Drag!7.52024HD
Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query,...
- 1961
The Zoo
The Zoo6.91961HD
A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered...
- 1929
Rain
Rain7.4291929HD
A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.
- 2024
Hideaway
Hideaway02024HD
Documentary portrait of the poet Karla Erbová is a confession of a creative personality who, despite many twists and turns in life, remains...
- 2021
Life in a Day 2020
Life in a Day 202082021HD
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...
- 1950
Mirror of Holland
Mirror of Holland6.21950HD
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...
- 2024
Una Lluz
Una Lluz02024HD
- 1929
Skyscraper Symphony
Skyscraper Symphony5.81929HD
A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed...
- 2024
Ashes of a Silent Sky
Ashes of a Silent Sky102024HD
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...
- 2024
Álbum de recortes
Álbum de recortes02024HD
- 1970
Con Traje y Sin Zapatos
Con Traje y Sin Zapatos01970HD
- 2024
Letters to my Grandma
Letters to my Grandma02024HD
A young filmmaker maintains an epistolary conversation with his deceased grandmother while he rediscovers the space they both inhabited for more than...
- 2024
Elas vêm de LÁ
Elas vêm de LÁ02024HD
Women find empowerment behind the red nose and makeup, revealing the playful and subversive spirit of female clowning. Through poetic and intimate...
- 1964
Faces of November
Faces of November6.21964HD
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...
- 1970
Necrology
Necrology5.71970HD
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...
- 2024
Wrong Way
Wrong Way102024HD
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...
- 2023
A Little Love
A Little Love102023HD
Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...
- 2024
The Song of the Years to Come
The Song of the Years to Come02024HD
On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present...
- 1970
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1501970HD
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....
- 1930
A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray
A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray51930HD
This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...