Contemplative Cinema Movies

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.

A filming exercise becomes a memory of young Nico's crush and fall for his classmate, Iris.

A woman returning home after having a sour day decides to sleep.

Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to...

Constructed purely out of b-roll, “Waste of a Day” is a completely improvised and unscripted short film that follows a man that has left...

A boy traverses through thoughts of past, present, and future on a contemplative trip through the city.

La bride - The dog's leash tells the story of a dog on the run through the Belgian countryside, attached to an endless leash.

A boy, metaphor of today's youth, reflects, waits and contracts in front of the inexorable progress of capitalism. The youth of today is called early...

‘Death Sounds a Quiet Gong’ was originally screened at Village Works (12 St. Marks Place, New York City, NY) on October 24, 2025. The...

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.

A man prays before the moonlit sky, a silhouette in the blue night, on his knees. The gently moving trees, the mountains on the horizon.

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

"When the wax that inhabits the soul is deeply and abundantly, tenderly and sufficiently kneaded, every thing that is transmitted through the channel...

A silent collage of un-edited images taken from Google Earth, with pictures ranging from straightforward landscapes to more abstract, organic and...

A man reads a letter from his away girlfriend while he contemplates on some memorable places in Jakarta, where they had spent time together.

For Sarah, her past has become a blur but she can’t shake the feeling that something horrible is locked away in her memories. Drawn back to her...

A meditative journey through an ancient and desolate land enveloped in an ever darkening mist.

For a long time, the Adriatic Sea used to be Central Europe's only link to the orient. This small sea became a symbol of entry to the vast, exotic...