Experimental Documentary Movies

'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway...

A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens...

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

Do we still know the grotesque when we see it? Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva, two of Latin America's greatest thinkers in the field of...

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his...

A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.

Istanbul: Chronopolis is an experimental documentary that explores the city as a living organism where the linear flow of time is disrupted and the...

In this experimental documentary, a comedian’s break-up leads her to a surprising journey with a community of LARPers.

They pass each other everyday, obscured by the crowds. They will always be there, always crossing paths, alone.

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against...

I look around and observe the landscape. I let myself go because that's all I have left: to listen, to look, to sleep, perhaps to dream. The rattle...

A celebration of home and belonging in South London. This is a film that tows the line between documentary and narrative, and celebrates neighborhood...

After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative...

Documentary that captures Tom Petty and the band in 1982-1983 as they finish, promote, and tour around the “Long After Dark” album (their...

Phyllis Bigler has been going to the Spanish Peaks of Colorado since she was a child. Now in her 90s, she tells her stories.

Set against the vibrant spectacle of the jaripeo, a symbol of Mexican cowboy tradition and machismo, this story unveils a hidden world of queer...

A dystopian future that’s ever nearer, Acid City floats in toxic waters and is left to its own devices. But under the boiling sun, the city...

Filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark interrogates their response to a transphobic slur hurled at them following their move to Berlin. Exploring the root...

A letter writer reflects on the space and people she encounters in her never ending journey. A letter reader dreams of unexpected things in his never...