Poetic Documentary Movies

A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts...

A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...

WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) - is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is...

A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.

Exploration of the ordinary lives led by women of different classes—a college professor, an unmarried woman, and a seasoned drama artist. They...

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...

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is...

What is a film if not a therapeutic act? Wa(te)r is a poetiс reflection on my 2022–2023 diary entries, poured from one medium to...

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...

Memory is an important part of life. Mimi Yu reminisces about her childhood through her poem Kitchen Dialogue, a short, intimate documentary of her...

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

Two street artists with contrasting intentions about the artform tell the relevance of street art in society while accompanied by an enigmatic...

An insightful, personal, and heartfelt spotlight on Professor Jennifer Dorothy Lee of the School the of Art Institute of Chicago.

An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

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...

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

My debut short film - as I approached adulthood, I created this as a means of reflection towards adolescence and life. A poetic documentary about...