Water Movies

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

A clip in the Science Please! collection, The Force of Water uses archival footage, animated illustration and amusing narration to explain the...

In a world where water has become a scarce commodity, a young scavenger finds a source to satisfy her thirst.

A visual and interpretative journey through the filmography of Andrei Tarkovsky, in search of the hidden meaning behind the recurring presence of...

A memorial mourns as time passes

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...

A horror short that takes on the Southern tradition of covering mirrors that face your bed. If not covered, it is believed that spirits will enter...

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in February of 1922. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Vancouver is a veritable metropolis, a beautiful cosmopolitan city; perhaps the most English in all the entire Dominion of Canada. It is famous for...

A conflict breaks out when one friend misunderstands the other.

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

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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

A healing and poetic essay on our intergenerational relationship with water.

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...

As the Earth nears its final days, a few brave survivors seek a way to survive. The answer: Red Earth, a new world that could save what's left of...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.