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....

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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Rudra has come back one morning, has return to his friend Saruar's home. He had disappeared from home leaving no cue, a year ago. Saruar first came to know about Rudra's disappearance in Rudra's mother's call. Then he had gone to Rudra's home and saw...

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...

"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...

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

A musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech....

Film poem created with the wild flowers that grow along the shore of the Laira estuary, the tidal mouth of the River Plym, on the southwest coast of Britain. The petals and leaves stream past as the haunting soundscape ebbs and flows....

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things....

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences....

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford....

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

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