Landscape Movies

“All that which in Picture is not of the body or argument thereof is Landskip, Parergon, or By-work” (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656).

Latest installment from the on-going collaboration between filmmaker Paul Clipson & musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Paul's Super8 films, shot entirely...

Beautiful landscape film highlighting the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, CA—the debut from whiz kid director Ajay Bhargava.

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.

A timeless landscape steeped in history that is little changed today, but was surely made to be filmed!

The Observed questioning the Observer and the Observing.

In Espectro the viewer embarks on a journey that enters the dreams and thoughts of the filmmaker, exploring the nuances of image, archive, and...

A solitary observation of an abandoned beach beneath a sky slowly closing in, moments before the rain.

Daily dedications to a minor artisan of the classical Hollywood western. Each segment was originally a kind of letter, a private correspondence, sent...

In spring 1997, after several delays, The Video Dream Mixes was released. It features music material from The Dream Mixes, combined with films of US...

Time of Breadth is a document of a telephone conversation between the artist and his mother recounting the Lebanese wars. It is a portrayal...

From inside the funicular heading to Harder Kulm, the landscapes in the foreground and background appear to shift at different speeds with the...

Set at an artificial reservoir in North Carolina, RESERVOIR (SEVEN FRAGMENTS) is a meditation on the unnatural histories of the American environment....

An investigation about human intervention in nature, from the subjective point of view of the camera, the environment and its transformation are...

What is that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? No, it's the cinematic eye decieving you. It's a study of circular motion, polyphony...

Two climbers progress on an alpine glacier and reach the top of a mountain by climbing a long and steep slope of snow and ice. They also have to...

A meditative image of the light dancing along a snowy landscape.

"Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Helmont, 1650).

Something changes in an apparently motionless landscape. As the gaze draws closer, the recognizable loses its form.