Water Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

Lost Mind is an experimental short film, written and directed by Lucas Donnat, that explores the perception of time and memory through the staging of...

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...

Rise and Fall is a two-channel video installation by artist Fiona Tan, exploring the relationship between memory, time and identity. Two women from...

Gaspar is a young man who, on an ordinary day, hears a mysterious voice calling to him from inside the bidet in his house. Intrigued, he becomes...

Scientists dive deep on the mysterious and unusual predatory behavior of orcas attacking great white sharks, and the disappearance of the other...

Nice looking Travelogue takes us to the Northeast corner of Wyoming as we visit Yellowstone National Park.

When tragedy strikes, a spirited young woman turns to wild swimming in search of answers. By swimming each day at dawn and forming an unlikely...

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

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

Two young adults venture into a storm sewer in search of something interesting. They succeed.

two people decide who will save a dog inside their pool.

Mineral Bar is a meditative short film shot on location along the North Fork of the American River in Colfax, California. The film focuses on the...

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

The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.

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...

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival