Observational Cinema Movies

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem con...

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of...

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

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Ins...

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people and...

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman....

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally...

Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based...

What really happens inside the walls of an American high school? Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman answers that question in this peek inside Phila...

A cinéma vérité exploration of the grueling schedules, auditions, lighting design, and backstage operations at the famous Parisian nude cabaret, Le Cr...

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking pass...

The innocent lines of a young girl’s diary recount the visit of her father’s colleagues, the games played in the garden, and the weight of the summer...

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

Alone in the cosmic sea, a voice cries out to you.

When Sara and Samar return to their coastal Indian hometown for their grandfather’s funeral, the siblings drift through quiet rituals and the lingerin...

Daily life in a Benedictine monastery follows resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of the...