Movies: Observational cinema
- 1983
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
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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 contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and...
- 1961
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
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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 passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes....
- 1969
Mondo (1969)
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- 1995
Anything Can Happen (1995)
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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 scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to ans...
- 1992
Tequila (1992)
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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 modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be...
- 2013
A Normal Life. Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler (2013)
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The diary of Takuya Ogushi, a 18 years old Japanese, who begins his new life as a sumo wrestler....
- 1969
Blue Kangling (1969)
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Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths...
- 2023
Sit With Me and Do Nothing for a While (2023)
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A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot....
- 2018
Carving Thy Faith (2018)
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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 livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many f...
- 2023
Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work (2023)
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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 people for four days of learning and working in the forest. The observational film follows along as...
- 2016
Trump Rally (2016)
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Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally....
- 2023
Olive (2023)
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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 food, and occasional other types of “waste”, across Atlanta, GA. Presented in a quiet observational sty...
- 2020
Quiet Remains (2020)
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A quasi-documentary look at how certain things fit together. This film embraces an unhurried tempo....
- 2020
Wheel Music (2020)
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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 of Sendagi, an old town in Tokyo under urban development in preparation for the planned Tokyo 2020 Su...
- 1969
Reya's World (1969)
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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 cycle of isolation, Reya finds solace and gradual healing through small moments of self-connection and...
- 2024
tenho olhado bastante pras coisas (2024)
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- 2015
Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard (2015)
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- 2018
Nai Nai (2018)
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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 grasp of reality and the control of her own mind is slipping away. Told through the lens of her grands...
- 2019
Panoramas (2019)
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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 life in this immense country. 2019 naturalists and humanists attempted a transdisciplinary expediti...
- 2016
El día nuevo (2016)
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