Movies: Non narrative

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life....

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from c...

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot ...

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ...

A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness....

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age....

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray....

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city....

A non-verbal visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage of photography and video. Landscapes at the World's Ends is a multi-dimensional canvas of imagery recorded above the Arctic Circle and below the Antar...

shot in melbourne, may 2024...

"Des-authorized" is the combination of three stories, three realities that coexist and feed. The journey begins in the imagination of Elia K, the principal, who imagines Elijah, a character who is a poor playwright facing the crossroads to be true to...

Esrime is a juxtaposition of the meditative experience with the cycles of nature. Its is an attempt to transpose the perception of the meditative state to the audiovisual medium, yet the film itself is an object of meditation that interacts with the ...

A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and...

"Beyond Noh" rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance, and politics....

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A constant journey from outer space to a town in Norway, where we encounter small pieces of people’s lives....

A cinematic journey through the world. Non-verbal....

what was the last dream you had?...

A man wanders an oceanic dreamscape in search of a woman from his past....