Observational Cinema Movies

  • 1983
    Koyaanisqatsi

    Koyaanisqatsi

    Koyaanisqatsi

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    Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem con...

    Koyaanisqatsi
  • 1961
    Chronicle of a Summer

    Chronicle of a Summer

    Chronicle of a Summer

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    Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking pass...

    Chronicle of a Summer
  • 2013
    A Normal Life. Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler

    A Normal Life. Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler

    A Normal Life. Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler

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    The diary of Takuya Ogushi, a 18 years old Japanese, who begins his new life as a sumo wrestler.

    A Normal Life. Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler
  • 1995
    Anything Can Happen

    Anything Can Happen

    Anything Can Happen

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    A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his...

    Anything Can Happen
  • 2023
    Olive

    Olive

    Olive

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    “Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and redistributing foo...

    Olive
  • 2018
    Carving Thy Faith

    Carving Thy Faith

    Carving Thy Faith

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    A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihoo...

    Carving Thy Faith
  • 1992
    Tequila

    Tequila

    Tequila

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    Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of...

    Tequila
  • 2024
    Blue Kangling

    Blue Kangling

    Blue Kangling

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    Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

    Blue Kangling
  • 2024
    Reya's World

    Reya's World

    Reya's World

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

    Reya's World
  • 2023
    Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work

    Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work

    Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work

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    In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered...

    Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work
  • 2015
    Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard

    Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard

    Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard

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    Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard
  • 2024
    tenho olhado bastante pras coisas

    tenho olhado bastante pras coisas

    tenho olhado bastante pras coisas

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    tenho olhado bastante pras coisas
  • 2023
    Sit With Me and Do Nothing for a While

    Sit With Me and Do Nothing for a While

    Sit With Me and Do Nothing for a While

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

    Sit With Me and Do Nothing for a While
  • 2020
    Wheel Music

    Wheel Music

    Wheel Music

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

    Wheel Music
  • 2020
    Quiet Remains

    Quiet Remains

    Quiet Remains

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

    Quiet Remains
  • 2019
    Panoramas

    Panoramas

    Panoramas

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    In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people and...

    Panoramas
  • 2024
    Mondo

    Mondo

    Mondo

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    Mondo
  • 2016
    Trump Rally

    Trump Rally

    Trump Rally

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

    Trump Rally
  • 2018
    Nai Nai

    Nai Nai

    Nai Nai

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    Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-Ming has always been a woman of control. But her gr...

    Nai Nai
  • 2016
    El día nuevo

    El día nuevo

    El día nuevo

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    El día nuevo