Water Movies

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Nabil has to deal with his fear of water caused by a trauma he had, which he tries, day after day, to fight.

A portrait of free diver Kathryn Nevatt, former World Champion and current New Zealand record holder in all three disciplines.

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

This 1950s' film looks at the measures to preserve water flow from the Rocky Mountains. With the steady falling of the water table, the exploitation...

A Tibetan woman collects water near her family's yak farm and brings it back home 80-pounds full, in a ritual that takes her an hour to complete. A...

Draped in an electric blue fabric, the artist acts as a conduit between the tangile and the spiritual, blurring the boundaries between human form and...

The Green Desert presents a dazzling kaleidoscope of vineyards, date ranches, and bell pepper farms in the Coachella Valley near the Salton Sea. The...

Appealing concurrently in this video essay to various meanings of the term “Subatlantic”—a climatic phase beginning 2500 years ago,...

In the late afternoon, a young girl sits by herself, waiting to be picked up as the last child. At home, an unsettling reality awaits marked by her...

Travelogue released on the first of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A desperate survivor races for the most valuable resource in a dangerous and desolate wilderness.

Abu Kiffan is the name of a reef near Safaga in Egypt. In the film we are drowned in sound, time slows down and we are given a closer look at...

You and AI at the end of the world.

After being left alone at home, a boy experiences strange phenomena with his faucets.

Elara, a young violinist, is madly in love with Lucio, a Sicilian student. Their love blossoms, but suddenly Lucio must return to Italy to care for...

After a diving excursion in the middle of the ocean, Lindsey is viciously sexually assaulted by Bruce, her instructor. She fends him of and they fall...

As the Caspian Sea disappears, its spirit haunts the fishermen and women, and other resident creatures, in a desperate attempt to remember their...