Observational Cinema Movies

In a quiet Rajasthani village, young Ali clings to his cricket bat as his friends chase it. What starts as playful mischief reveals a film crew...

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

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

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

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational...

A mixture of documentary and fiction as seen through the eyes of a non-participant observer, this drama presents the life of the fisherman Maldonado....

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

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

Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

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

CANAL ZONE is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental...

MEAT traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods. It depicts the processing and transportation of meat products by a...

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

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

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered...

On the 43rd day the rain ceases to subside.

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

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...

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.