Movies: Ambient

A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic experience like no other....

Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's ignored when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence....

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination....

In the middle of the night, you never know who can be a witness of your decisions......

After a feverish dream, a paralysed woman finds herself trapped within a purgatory of sleep, as their inaction causes time to move. The dreamers' body mutates and deforms as multiple incarnations of herself struggle to awake. Bed & Breakfast is a su...

A man struggles to live a normal life after an intruder begins stalking his every move....

Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking through a constantly shifting kaleidoscope—vibrant colors, strange shapes, and mesmerizing patterns swirli...

A promotional video by Woah. featuring scenes from southern New Hampshire and Block Island...

The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance of VHS video. Their bodies, sometimes two and others four, are always connected with a rope, influenc...

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create...

A man in need of help eventually receives it, whether he asks for it or not....

The observer gazes at the water, symbolizing life, & attempts to move upstream against the flow. When he reaches the source, he finds the struggle too much to bear. Eventually he decides to relax by the water, watching it flow by, embracing the calm....

A recollection of East-African Asian displacement in the 1970s to an ambient score....

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at the surface. As they glide farther away and draw closer together, they reach out in collective queer ...

Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe. This is the second film i...

Sonzai Zone is a speculative fiction film on intimacy and loneliness after the normalization of ambient communication media. An unlikely encounter between Yún and Souvd takes place in a near-future where social interactions are largely based on the m...

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A police officer finds himself worthless as he soon realizes there's no way he could put an end to a businessman associated with running a prostitution ring....

A group of high school graduates are invited to their five year class of 1995 reunion. Fourteen people, each from their own cliques of their past high school lives, make their way up to the old high school hang out spot, buried deep in the woods for ...

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic, meditative short film about letting go of the past and embracing the unknown future....