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....

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...

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

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....

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...

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

An atmospheric journey, following the unstoppable forces that shape this world. A story beyond humanity....

A lone figure drifts between reality and reflection, caught in stillness and searching for something just out of reach....

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs....

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 tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art itself and coming to terms with his decisions....

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...

Here begins the land of phantoms....

A landscape film about winter....

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

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....

A post-dubbed, micro-budget, horror-sci-fi anthology consisting of five tales woven together by the hallucinatory mind-melding of ceremonial slime drinking humanoids from another dimension....

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 ...

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 short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape....