Minimalism Movies

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

A young adult silently drowning in trauma, yearning to let out what’s inside of him, navigates a series of encounters—each revealing...

Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music...

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less.

In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat...

A couple goes away for the weekend to discover new experiences and reignite their passions with a mysterious woman named, M.

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

In a silent world ruled by routine and precision, a man's search for order reveals a deep inner disturbance that leads him to a sudden moment of...

A camera is set up. A demand is made. In the heavy silence of a shaded place, a young woman faces the ultimate pressure to conform.

Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer,...

In a post-apocalyptic future a man and a woman find comfort in the long-forgotten emotion of sexual love.

What does it mean to be free? The Cocoon explores the feeling of imprisonment experienced by women who try to find freedom – not only in times...

A short-action-art film depicting a story of biblical proportions where the suppressed (a collection of societal minorities) overthrow the juxtaposed...

Through the eyes of a silent witness in the mountains of Kurdistan, four colorful hands unite in the sunlight, creating a powerful visual metaphor...

I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The first performance of the work...

A collection of solitary urban images intersect with each other.