Landscape Movies

“All that which in Picture is not of the body or argument thereof is Landskip, Parergon, or By-work” (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656).

From inside the funicular heading to Harder Kulm, the landscapes in the foreground and background appear to shift at different speeds with the...

Latest installment from the on-going collaboration between filmmaker Paul Clipson & musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Paul's Super8 films, shot entirely...

Beautiful landscape film highlighting the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, CA—the debut from whiz kid director Ajay Bhargava.

A timeless landscape steeped in history that is little changed today, but was surely made to be filmed!

We live out our lives on our planet’s fractured crust, “plates” that pull apart, collide, grind past each other and even sink below...

Time of Breadth is a document of a telephone conversation between the artist and his mother recounting the Lebanese wars. It is a portrayal...

In Espectro the viewer embarks on a journey that enters the dreams and thoughts of the filmmaker, exploring the nuances of image, archive, and...

This fascinating documentary follows a Chilean-Argentine team of scientists in their search for extremophiles—living organisms that inhabit the...

Daily dedications to a minor artisan of the classical Hollywood western. Each segment was originally a kind of letter, a private correspondence, sent...

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.

In spring 1997, after several delays, The Video Dream Mixes was released. It features music material from The Dream Mixes, combined with films of US...

Set at an artificial reservoir in North Carolina, RESERVOIR (SEVEN FRAGMENTS) is a meditation on the unnatural histories of the American environment....

What is that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? No, it's the cinematic eye decieving you. It's a study of circular motion, polyphony...

An investigation about human intervention in nature, from the subjective point of view of the camera, the environment and its transformation are...

Something changes in an apparently motionless landscape. As the gaze draws closer, the recognizable loses its form.

A meditative image of the light dancing along a snowy landscape.

"Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Helmont, 1650).

Annette Philo brings us to the Scottish landscape and its associated dream-like mystique. With gentle overlays, vivid purples and blues, and alluding...