Water Movies

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

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 visual concoction of model photo-shoots, swimming routines, filmmaking, drowning, death and holocaust.

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

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...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

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

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...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

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...

Landskap is a focused and tightly-constructed series of panorama, whose masterly projection of natural sound and cyclical construction are manifested...

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

The coronavirus is affecting the entire planet, killing thousands, changing the way we see the world and pushing our societies to rethink its habits...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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