Landscape Movies

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer...

In this silent film, a hermit living in the ruins of an old castle spies on and grows obsessed with a young couple building a home by the river.

A trip behind and beneath the street-level skin of the city on the hidden paths of industrial history and once-and-future transit.

A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the airport...

The documentary shows the remarkably diverse landscapes of the Serchio Valley, from the Apuan Alps to the Tyrrhenian Sea.

In Seán Martin's "Koan IV", an opening provocation suggests that the things we see continually hide the things we'd like to see. What we see...

The black and white, live-action Swiss Trip, scored with Bach's 3rd Brandenburg Concerto (like Motion Painting No. 1), is kind of a nature or travel...

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 2 of 2

Colonisation, like a forced and destructive transplant, leads to ruin, desolation, and the enslavement of fauna, flora, and humans.

In a remote area of northern Spain, the wind has a name: Tramuntana. Tramuntana takes what it wants—clothes, trees, boats, and the people of...

Footage of Devil's Gate Dam insterspersed with text occultist text by Jack Parsons, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who some believe...

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, old gods are upset with us, and...

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing...

Originally filmed inside a train tunnel in Québec City, “930” presents a series of visual passages oscillating between light and...

A short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.

Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland, joined by the interluency of various paths taken, each bit real enough, though...

A study of water and fire.

Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.

A writer goes missing on a canoe trip with her boyfriend in an area of Oregon known for its fossil record dating back sixty million years.