Observational Cinema Movies

"In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera...

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

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

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

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

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

Tracing the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods, Frederick Wiseman's deep dive depicts the processing and transportation of...

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

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...

An observational peice about an individuals connection to the sport of climbing, showing their expericence.

A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding...

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

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.

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

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and...