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1	Russian Ark (2002) more movies like this directed by Alexander Sokurov featuring Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, David Giorgobiani, Alexandr Chaban Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russian Ark. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead of tape). Russian Ark is shot from the point-of-view of an unseen narrator, as he explores the ... see all copies from £3.53! new only from £10.94!
2	Helvetica (2007) more movies like this directed by Gary Hustwit featuring Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf In 2005 a number of provocative, award-winning ads appeared that touted the Helvetica font; Gary Hustwit explores the subject protractedly with his feature-length essay film Helvetica. The documentary, produced in 2007 (and thus commemorating the typeface's 50th anniversary) uses the omnipresent font as a lens, through which it examines ... see all copies from £13.51! new only from £13.51!
3	F for Fake (1973) more movies like this directed by Orson Welles featuring Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic free association on the topic of trickery. Much of the film is in fact drawn from other sources, most notably an unfinished documentary by Francois Reichenbach on the notorious Elmyr de Hory, whose ... see all copies from £11.19! new only from £23.53!
4	Koyaanisqatsi (1982) more movies like this directed by Godfrey Reggio An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (the film's title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as "life out of balance") is composed of nature imagery, manipulated in slow ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.24!
5	Naqoyqatsi (2002) more movies like this directed by Godfrey Reggio Filmmaker, philosopher and activist Godfrey Reggio completes the film trilogy he began with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi in this visually striking examination of the impact of technology upon our culture. Naqoyqatsi is a word from the Hopi language which roughly translates as "war as a way of life" or "a life of killing each other," and in this ... see all copies from £9.71! new only from £9.71!
6	Baraka (1993) more movies like this directed by Ron Fricke Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as "breath of life" or "blessing," Baraka is Ron Fricke's impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio's non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio's film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on ... see all copies from £3.47! new only from £17.67!
7	The Mirror (1974) more movies like this directed by Andrei Tarkovsky featuring Margarita Terekhova, Anatoli Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Ignat Daniltsev, Filipp Yankovsky The award-winning director Andrei Tarkovsky, (one of his better known films is Andrei Rublev), the son of a famous Russian poet, was born in 1935 and grew up in and around Moscow during the Second World War. This non-linear autobiographical film is considered by many Russian-speakers to be his best film and is his most personal meditation on time, ... see all copies from £3.71! new only from £18.82!
8	Powaqqatsi (1988) more movies like this directed by Godfrey Reggio Powaqqatsi was the second of the feature-length "non narrative" films produced, directed and co-scripted by Godfrey Reggio. As in his earlier Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio utilizes a collage of sounds and gimmicked-up images to make a comment on modern life. And as in the earlier film, Reggio's onslaught of imagery is backed up by the music of Philip ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.59!
9	Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) more movies like this directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul An adventurous experiment in cinematic storytelling, this low-budget independent Thai feature is structured like the Surrealist idea of the "exquisite corpse." One person begins a story, and a succession of others continue it in whatever way they see fit. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul gleans his participants from all over the Thai countryside ... see all copies from £14.17! new only from £14.17!
10	September 11 (2003) more movies like this directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amos Gitai, Claude Lelouch, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were given was that no one film could exceed 11 minutes, ... see all copies from £10.04! new only from £13.82!
11 view cover	The Gleaners and I (2001) more movies like this directed by Agnès Varda Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda takes digital camcorder in hand and roams about the French countryside in search of "gleaners." An age-old practice, as depicted in Millet's famous painting, performed traditionally by peasant women, gleaners scavenged the remains of a crop after the harvest. Varda finds their modern-day equivalent collecting ... see all copies from £12.65! new only from £13.96!
12 view cover	Notre Musique (2004) more movies like this directed by Jean-Luc Godard featuring Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Ronny Kramer, Georges Aguilar Legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once again poses a number of provocative questions about art, politics, and the nexus point between them in this drama in three acts, "Hell," "Purgatory," and "Paradise." After a collage of film clips illustrate a meditation on the nature of war and conflict in society, Godard introduces his central set ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £5.64!
13 view cover	Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland (1977) more movies like this directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg This seven-hour long epic completes the "German Trilogy" of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, which began with his meditation on the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria and continued with a biography of popular writer Karl May. In this film, he explores the factors in the German psyche which sought for and then deified a man like Hitler. Using absolutely no ... see all copies from £41.17! new only from £41.17!
14 view cover	London (1994) more movies like this directed by Patrick Keiller A side of London rarely experienced by tourists is seen in this spare, austere mix of narrative film and documentary. The filmmaking team behind Robinson in Space returns to the capitol of the United Kingdom to find out just how much a modern city can change in the short window of seven years. Upon returning to London to tour the city with his ... see all copies from £15.23! new only from £15.23!
15 view cover	Amore e Rabbia (1969) more movies like this directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlo Lizzani, Jean-Luc Godard, Marco Bellocchio, Pier Paolo Pasolini featuring Nino Castelnuovo, Ninetto Davoli, Tom Baker This obscure film is directed by five well-known cinematographers. "Apathy" is directed by Carlo Lizzani and concerns a New York rape victim whose cries for help fall on deaf ears. Bernardo Bertolucci directs "Agony." Members of the Living Theater mime death scenes. In "The Paper Flower Sequence," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a man carries a ... see all copies from £14.56! new only from £14.56!
16 view cover	Kinoglaz (1924) more movies like this directed by Dziga Vertov The first part of Kinoglaz is set in a rural village peopled by Russian peasants. A group of children (referred to as "Young Pioneers") mobilize the adults into the new covenant of Russian society under communism. Since the Young Pioneers can read and keep up with the new Soviet literature, and dutifully poster the town with relevant information, ... see all copies from £11.06! new only from £14.50!
17 view cover	L'Hypothese Du Tableau Volé (1978) more movies like this directed by Raúl Ruiz featuring Jean Rougeul, Anne Debois, Alix Comte, Jean Narboni The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting is the film most responsible for bringing director Raul Ruiz to international prominence. The intricate film is structured as an unfolding puzzle, a bafflingly complex mystery where the detectives use the techniques of art history. The film is narrated by an art collector and an unnamed interviewer who dissect ... see all copies from £18.54! new only from £18.54!
18 view cover	Robinson in Space (1997) more movies like this directed by Patrick Keiller Two fictional characters, The Narrator (Paul Scofield) and Robinson, provide the wry commentary for Patrick Keiller's semi-documentary look at contemporary British society. The two have been commissioned by a British advertising company to do a thorough survey of Great Britain in order to discern its "problem," the exact nature of which is never ... see all copies from £15.23! new only from £15.23!
19 view cover	For Ever Mozart (1996) more movies like this directed by Jean-Luc Godard featuring Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux, Ghalia Lacroix, Vicky Messica For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. Director Jean-Luc Godard presents stories about this troop to ask how one can make art while ... see all copies from £2.77!
20 view cover	War Requiem (1988) more movies like this directed by Derek Jarman featuring Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes, Rohan McCullough The first BBC television film to be given a British theatrical release, Derek Jarman's War Requiem is a cinematic interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's famed oratorio. Narrated by Lord Laurence Olivier, whose last film this was, War Requiem combines Britten's music with the words of English poet (and World War 1 casualty Wilfred Owen) and ... see all copies from £13.13! new only from £35.21!
21 view cover	The Cry of Jazz (1958) more movies like this directed by Ed Bland Shot by Edward O. Bland in downtown Chicago and originally released in 1959, the half-hour documentary short The Cry of Jazz functions as Bland's foreboding prophecy, predicting the death of jazz as a form of African American expression, and deeply analyzing the racial politic of the music. In its time, The Cry of Jazz also became one of the key ... see all copies from £10.02! new only from £10.02!
22 view cover	Numéro Deux (1975) more movies like this directed by Jean-Luc Godard featuring Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Dudry, Alexandre Rignault, Pierre Oudrey, Rachel Stefanopoli Numéro Deux marks the high point of co-directors Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's experimentation with video. They present a set of scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family. The body of the film was initially shot on video, then played back on monitors and filmed in 35 millimeter. The screen often shows two scenes ... see all copies from £37.41!
23 view cover	Tokyo X Erotica (2001) more movies like this This experimental digital film from writer/director Takahisa Zeze explores love, life, sex, and death throughout the course of five explicit vignettes. Starring Yuji Ishikawa and Takeshi Ito, Tokyo X Erotica was originally released with the subtitle Shibireru Kairaku and screened at the 2002 Rotterdam International Film Festival. Matthew Tobey, ... see all copies from £10.02! new only from £10.02!
24 view cover	Le Gai Savoir (1968) more movies like this directed by Jean-Luc Godard featuring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film language. The setting is a darkened soundstage with only a single light to illuminate two actors who discuss philosophy. The philosophy reflects the director's most radical thoughts about making films. When not discussing films, the two play word ... see all copies from £12.65! new only from £12.65!
25 view cover	Maillart's Bridges (2001) more movies like this directed by Heinz Emigholz This feature-length experimental documentary from avant-garde director Heinz Emigholz provides a free-form visual meditation on the subject of reinforced concrete, as implemented in various bridges designed and built by Swiss-born civil engineer and artisan Robert Maillart. In so doing, the film provides a broader meditation on one architect's ... see all copies from £22.47! new only from £22.47!

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