Observational Cinema Movies

They pass each other everyday, obscured by the crowds. They will always be there, always crossing paths, alone.

Tracing the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods, Frederick Wiseman's deep dive depicts the processing and transportation of...

"In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera...

This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company:...

Shots from a trip in Maine both distorted and regular. Whether it be the wild or modern places

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

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

Short experimental film that captures glimpses of everyday reality and, in this process, encourages the viewer to poetically observe these details.

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

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

This film is an exercise in observational cinema and it's emotional effect on the viewer. Shot on iPhone 11 and completed within a two hour timeframe.

A tender moment between a woman and her grandchild.

A sole bird sits atop a spire, observing those around them.

A construction of obscured VHS footage. A distortion of childhood memories.

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...

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