Observational Cinema Movies

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

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

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

In a near future shaped by a five-degree rise in global temperature, Raj moves through a flooded Singapore, his body already showing signs of...

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

Across the seasons, the film gives an account of life and work and the animals and visitors at Zurich Zoo, an institution that is one of the leading...

On a psychedelic night, the protagonist speaks endlessly to his friends, friends we never hear. Beneath his loud, crude monologue, a different figure...

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.

Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.

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

On the 43rd day the rain ceases to subside.

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

Udin, a young boy, drifts through his quiet routines inside an old bus yet within him he carries a world far heavier than his years.

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

A quasi-documentary look at how certain things fit together. This film embraces an unhurried tempo.

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.