Poetic Documentary Movies

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

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

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

A poetic mosaic of intimate and cultural perspectives on Pará reveals a sensory experience of discovery. Between spontaneous records, memory,...

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

A story of The Map and The Territory. Shot in BC, California, and Nevada. Original music by Tashi Townley, Jack Brintnell, Luc Wiebe, and George Lee.

Once the beating heart of Beijing’s steel industry, Shougang was a leviathan forged from iron and fire. Its blast furnaces once echoed with...

In intimate confessions and poetic imagery, the film transforms simple fruit into a profound metaphor for the eternal quest for meaning, love, power,...

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.

From a high school art class to a local radio station, the day-to-day lives of several women coalesce into a poetic documentation of women’s...

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...

A quiet state of being alone that feels calm and freeing. This was a Uni project based around the theme of 'Individualism.'

Miška is 20 years old, and she has a dream of living in Prague. While coming along her journey, we find out more about her mental health and...

Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to...

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.