Movies: Ambient

A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic experience like no other....

Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe. This is the second film i...

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 2 of 2...

An atmospheric journey, following the unstoppable forces that shape this world. A story beyond humanity....

A police officer finds himself worthless as he soon realizes there's no way he could put an end to a businessman associated with running a prostitution ring....

A man struggles to live a normal life after an intruder begins stalking his every move....

A man in need of help eventually receives it, whether he asks for it or not....

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs....

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape....

Sonzai Zone is a speculative fiction film on intimacy and loneliness after the normalization of ambient communication media. An unlikely encounter between Yún and Souvd takes place in a near-future where social interactions are largely based on the m...

A recollection of East-African Asian displacement in the 1970s to an ambient score....

The observer gazes at the water, symbolizing life, & attempts to move upstream against the flow. When he reaches the source, he finds the struggle too much to bear. Eventually he decides to relax by the water, watching it flow by, embracing the calm....

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Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create...

A landscape film about winter....

The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance of VHS video. Their bodies, sometimes two and others four, are always connected with a rope, influenc...

The second film in the Phosphenes series....

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination....

Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's ignored when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence....

A prismatic view of flowers....