is a 2019 short film by Barbara Hammer and Lynne Sachs.

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had an artist residency in a shack without running water or electricity. While there, she shot film, recorded sounds and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her images, sounds and writing from the residency to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material. Through her own filmmaking, Lynne explores Barbara's experience of solitude. She places text on the screen as a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces and times.

is a 1992 documentary by Werner Herzog.

The film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualised and characterised in such a way as to emphasise the terrain's cataclysmic strangeness.

is a 2008 documentary by Arne Glimcher.

This film looks at how early filmmaking influenced artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

is a 1952 experimental film by Mary Ellen Bute.

As a pioneer of visual music and electronic art, she produced over a dozen short abstract animations. Set to classical music and replete with rapidly mutating geometries, Bute's filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies.

is a 2003 documentary by Lutz Dammbeck.

The film explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology - a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.

is a 2021 short film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Humming fluorescent lights illuminate a bedroom at night, drawing Chiang Mai's subtropical nightlife into a tiny, intimate, and temporary cohabitation - a buzzing and bustling ecosystem of insects and lizards, nested within the human domestic space.

is a 1972 film by Gordon Matta-Clark.

This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 1968 experimental film by Joyce Wieland.

The film tells a story about rats (actually pet gerbils) held as political prisoners in the United States (their jailer a cat), who make a heroic escape to Canada. Although this narrative is recounted through wryly worded intertitles, the film nonetheless conveys a sense of menace and urgency.

is a 2018 documentary by Viktor Kossakovsky.

From the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela's mighty Angel Falls, Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of water.

is a 2005 documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig.

Portrait of Daniel Johnston, a manic depressive, defiantly lo-fi, cult singer/songwriter/artist, whose work has proved inspirational to fans and musicians alike. Mixing archive material and his prodigious films, drawings and music, Johnston is revealed in this portrait of madness, creative genius, and love.

is a 2016 documentary by Ceyda Torun.

Hundreds of thousands of Turkish cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. They wander in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the city. Claiming no owners, the cats live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame-bringing joy and purpose to the people they choose to adopt.

is a 1983 documentary by Chris Marker.

An unnamed woman narrates the letters and philosophical reflections of an invisible world traveler accompanied by footage of Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Iceland, Paris, San Francisco and, most significantly, Tokyo-a city whose people, streets, malls and temples inspire the traveler's observations.

is a 1947 documentary by Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren.

A day in the life of a cat, filmed from a cat's-eye view.

is a 2015 documentary by Isabella Gresser.

The film follows the author of the best-seller Fatigue Society, philosopher Byung-Chul Han, in Seoul and Berlin. This essayistic documentary revolves around the phenomenon of fatigue and its symptoms in contemporary, neoliberal societies.

is a 2002 documentary by John W. Walter.

A film about artist Ray Johnson's always memorable life and death, and features video footage of the artist's performance pieces, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries Roy Lichenstein, Christo, Chuck Close, and Billy Name.

is a 2007 documentary by Gary Hustwit.

A film that interviews many graphic designers involved in the history or modern usage of the Helvetica typeface. It discusses the original creator Eduard Hoffmann, and his goals for creating a clean, legible type relating to the ideals of the Modernist movement.

is a 2023 film by Hirokazu Koreeda.

When a young boy displays increasingly worrying behavior at school and home, his mother decides to discuss it with his teachers. It soon becomes apparent that one of his teachers is the source of all the problems. But as the mystery unfolds, the truth becomes more complex than expected.

is a 1931 film by James Whale.

In this adaptation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece novel, Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most tragic and memorable horror giant, when Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by piecing together salvaged body parts to create a human monster.

is a 2004 film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

A romance between a soldier and country boy is ruptured by the boy's sudden disappearance. Their story turns into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 1991 documentary by G. Dieter Plage.

The film presents a study of the many different types of bats in the world and their habitat and shows how important bats are to the ecological balance of their environment.

is a 2020 documentary.

Owls are remarkable, highly resourceful birds that have carved out a unique way to live. They have colonized terrains from tundra to rainforest and will hunt almost anything.

is a 1962 film by Johan van der Keuken.

The film portrays the studio and the work of the artist Lucebert, while off-screen he reads poems. It is the first part of a triology.

is a 1981 film by Andrzej Żuławski.

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

is a 1968 film by Chantal Akerman.

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in the kitchen - humming all along.

is a 1995 film by Paul McCarthy.

In this film, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract expressionists. Performing as the painter, McCarthy undermines pre-packaged ideas about the creative process by turning it into an absurdist soap-opera.

is a 2003 film by Kim Ki-duk.

Over the course of five seasons, an aging Buddhist monk bestows his wisdom onto a receptive young boy on his floating temple, but as the years go by, the pupil is lead astray by his carnal desires.

is a 2014 film by Lou Ye.

Nanjing. At a massage centre run by the blind, damaged bodies find relief beneath sensitive fingers. A new couple comes to work at the centre. The others are drawn to them. Within this community, we witness seduction, suffering and-above all-the search for love.

is a 1975 film by Lina Wertmüller.

Pasqualino is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters, when he is arrested for murder and sent to fight in the army. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.

is a 1986 film by David Greig.

Val Plumwood, environmental philosopher returns to Kakadu, where she was the victim of a crocodile attack. Against the backdrop of the steamy, intensely beautiful Kakadu National Park, she shares her thoughts on wilderness and wildlife. She emphasized that humans are part of the food chain, challenging the anthropocentric view that neglects this reality. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 1960 experimental film by Kurt Kren.

The film is made up of static shots of treetops that Kren took while walking through the park. As in his other work, the length of the shots is controlled based on a carefully pre-arranged scheme, which sets the film's rhythm and evokes its overall atmosphere, which is also supported by the effect of the dark tree crowns placed in contrast against the light sky.

is a 1995 film by Gimpo, Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond.

In the middle of the night of the 23rd of August 1994 the K Foundation burnt a million pounds in an abandoned boathouse.

is a 2023 film by Gisela Kaufmann and Joseph Nizeti.

Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight, between the world of plants and animals, another world exists-the kingdom of fungi. After the book 'Entangled Life' by Merlin Sheldrake, narrated by Björk.

is a 2023 exeprimental film by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

This is the howl, gaze, and agitation of the Coyote into the mountain. The Path of the Coyote.

is a 1986 film by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Alexander, a retired actor, is celebrating his birthday with family and friends when a TV announcement warns of an impending World War III and imminent nuclear catastrophe. Faced with an existential crisis, Alexander vows to renounce all he holds dear to prevent the disaster.

is a 1964 film by Robert Stevenson.

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

is a 1955 short film by Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt.

A park in New York and the birds that inhabit it.

is a 2023 film by Jorge Jácome.

In a forest just outside Lisbon, Dan, a young Venezuelan man, forages for magic mushrooms. Back in the city, he prepares the mushrooms before distributing them across Lisbon to those who need them the most-using carrier pigeons as his secret delivery service.

is a 2020 documentary by Victor Kossakovsky.

The film looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.

is a 2017 film by Rosalind Nashashibi.

Deep in the Guatemalan Highlands, Swiss-Austrian artists Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild live in a garden villa. Nashashibi captures the complexity of their unorthodox microcosm, which is dominated by the curiously intimate mother-daughter dynamic. (Unfortunately, this version of the film has a square in the lower right corner. Apologies for the inconvenience.)

is a 1984 film by Jonathan Demme.

A live performance of the band Talking Heads shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and featuring their most memorable songs. Lead singer David Byrne performs in his iconic big suit. It was re-released in 2023.

is a 1977 experimental film by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen.

It draws on the critical writings and investigations by both filmmakers into the codes of narrative cinema, and offers an alternative formal structure through which to consider the images and meanings of female representation in film. A complex treatise exploring feminism, motherhood and sexual difference in seven numbered chapters.

is a 1958 experimental film by Len Lye.

The film reduced the medium to its most basic elements - light in darkness - by scratching designs on black film.

is a 2006 documentary by Vincent Barré and Pierre Creton.

Three weeks of hiking in one of the highest-altitude places on earth: the Spiti Valley in the Himalayas. Two sequences of flowers picked like in a herbarium, emphasized by the voice of villages and the chants of monasteries.

is a 1978 documentary by Bert Haanstra.

This film portrays the importance of nature and landscape conservation in the Netherlands.

is a 2017 documentary by Michelle Ferrari.

A profile of scientist and writer Rachel L. Carson, whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" helped launch the modern environmental movement. When the book was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary national debate and was greeted by vigorous attacks from the chemical industry.

is a 1966 film by Andrei Tarkovsky.

In turbulent 15th century Russia, the iconic painter Andrei Rublev gains renown for his artwork while struggling to create under a repressive and violent regime.

is a 2020 documentary by James Reed and Pippa Ehrlich.

A free diver and an octopus develop an odd frienship across species, in a beautiful and thought-provoking film from the world under the sea.

is a 1975 spaghetti western by Enzo G. Castellari.

Onion arrives in town to start an onion farm on a parcel of land he's bought real cheap from a farmer. What he doesn't know is that evil oil magnate Petrus Lamb has bought/stolen all the property around the town due to the vast oil reserves under the town.

is a 2021 documentary by Camilla Becket.

This film tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the food justice movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.

is a 2012 documentary by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel.

In the waters where Melville's Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, Leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen small cameras - tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker - it is a cosmic portrait of mankind's place at the edge of wilderness.

is a 1975 is a music-theater piece in color video by Robert Ashley.

Music with Roots in the Aether is a series of interviews with seven composers who seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music, a movement that had its origins in the work of and in the stories about composers who started hearing things in a new way at least fifty years ago.

is a 1970 film by Anthony Friedman.

Updated to 1970s London, this faithful adaptation of Herman Melville's classic follows a young accounting clerk rebelling against his employer by responding to demands to do work by saying, "I prefer not to.".

is a 2022 documentary by Ana Vaz.

In Brasília, the modern capital of Brazil, an anteater is found dead by the side of a road, a boa constrictor wanders across the suburbs, and foxes prowl vacant streets. Meanwhile, in the city zoo-home to hundreds of displaced and rescued wild species-the animals look back at us humans.

is a 1981 film by Dick Maas.

The story revolves around the manager of a hotel-restaurant in the 'middle of nowhere' who, to promote his business, wants to break the world record for grave lying. It takes a while for the media to pay attention to his stunt. And it does not turn out well...

is a 1990 experimental film by Jonas Mekas.

"Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Williamsburg bridge, where, 58 minutes later, still raining, my walk ends. As I walk, occasionally I talk about what I see or I tell some totally unrelated little stories that come to my mind as I walk."

is a 2022 documentary by Jacquelyn Mills.

Environmentalist Zoe Lucas has cataloged flora and fauna on Sable Island, a thin strip of land off the Canadian coast, for decades. The island's only full-time human inhabitant, Zoe embarks on solitary excursions to observe the sand dunes, starry skies, wild horses, and washed-up plastic waste.

is a 2013 short film by Hiro Murai.

Follows a seemingly mundane day in the life of a young affluent rapper as he wanders through his cavernous mansion.

is a 2012 documentary by Rodney Ascher.

In the decades since it's release, many of the film's devotees have claimed to have decoded the film's secret messages. Cultists and scholars are interviewed to deconstruct Kubrick's classic, addressing everything from the genocide of Native Americans to a range of government conspiracies.

is a 2018 documentary by Arwen Curry.

It is exploring the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin. Best known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of "respectable" literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her fascinating story has never before been captured on film.

is a 1993 experimental film by Derek Jarman.

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

is a 1989 film by Alan Clarke.

Death in the streets, homes, parks and factories of Belfast. Alan Clarke's drama ‐ without character or narrative and shot in documentary style ‐ is a shockingly frank depiction of the futility of sectarian murder.

is a 1969 film by Sergei Parajanov.

A portrait of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat Nova, the 'King of Song'. Through his poetry and a series of lavish tableaux, the film charts his life from humble weaver, to king's minstrel and cloistered monk before being martyred for his faith by invading Persians. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 2020 documentary by Lisa Rovner.

The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. The history of electronic music from the point of view of the overlooked female pioneers in a film with style and substance, told by Laurie Anderson.

is a 1999 film by Jim Jarmusch.

Guided by the words of an ancient samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move through New York unnoticed. When his code is dangerously betrayed by a dysfunctional mafia family, Ghost Dog reacts strictly in accord with the Way of the Samurai.

is a 1978 documentary by Urban Lasson.

Moki and Don Cherry met in the mid-1960s and soon began collaborating closely. They made happenings, music, art, posters and record sleeves, they performed together, organised workshops and toured. The film merges the different worlds they lived in ‐ countryside and city life, and the various disciplines that were interwoven in their artistic practices. Some scenes also feature Eagle-Eye Cherry as a little boy and Neneh Cherry in her teens. Other musicians from that time include Collin Walcott, Rashied Ali, James Blood Ulmer and Naná Vasconcelos. Urban Lasson also appears in the film.

is a 2016 documentary by Marcie Begleiter.

The film sheds light on the artist's far-reaching career in the 1960s and beyond, as a pioneer of post-minimalism in sculpture and drawing. It features a lively investigation into the creative community of 1960s New York and Germany, where Hesse spent time during a year-long residency at Scheidt's textile factory in Kettwig-on-the-Ruhr near Essen. Many of Hesse's writings and letters from this period are voiced in the film by Selma Blair.

is a series of five films by Rosemarie Trockel, made between 2000 and 2002.

By creating unfamiliar characters with uncertain intentions, Trockel draws on a constellation of emotions to provoke, sometimes humorously, unsettling questions about generally held notions of identity.

is a 2016 documentary by Fabrizio Terranova.

Through the act of story-telling, this documentary operates as a cat cradle of past and speculative futures guided by American philosopher Donna Haraway whose theoretical framework crosses the subjects of science, technology, gender and species, proposing new ways of thinking beyond dualisms.

is a 1983 film by Fischli & Weiss.

As they hike through the mountains, at the mercy of the elements and all kinds of miracles ‐ and above all, at the mercy of themselves, Rat and Bear try to find reasons for all they see and experience, getting closer then expected to the right way. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 1968 film by Jean-Luc Godard.

The film intercuts footage of the Rolling Stones working on the song "Sympathy for the Devil" in a studio; Anne Wiazemsky as "Eve Democracy," sauntering through London in a gown as she is being interviewed by a TV reporter; and other scenes examining capitalism, activism, and political conflict.

In his original version of the film, entitled One Plus One, Godard intentionally omitted the final studio recording of the song‐an indication, to some, that the work of the "people's revolution" remained unfinished. However, producer Ian Quarrier, in a bid to give Stones fans what they wanted, insisted on putting the complete song back in, and renamed the film Sympathy for the Devil.

is a 1968 fiction/documentary hybrid by William Greaves.

Greaves presides over a collective film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. A couple enacts a breakup scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies, expanded thirty-five years later by its unconventional follow-up, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½.

is a 2001 film by Quentin Dupieux.

A man, Vince, wakes up in the middle of a film shoot. He doesn't know what's going on or why he's there, but crew members tell him he's one of the actors in the film so he decides to just play along. During the shooting of one scene, one of the other actors, 122, accidentally kills most of the crew. Vince, 122 and the remaining crew decide to finish the film by themselves, even though there's no script, no sound equipment (they decide to make it a silent film) and no camera (they then decide to also make it a "blind" film).

is a 1927 silent film by Walter Ruttmann.

An emblematic 'city symphony' film structured to follow the life of Berlin and its inhabitants across the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk, to create "a symphonic film with the thousandfold energies that make up the life of a great city."

A musical score for an orchestra to accompany the silent film was written by Edmund Meisel.

is a 2009 documentary by Bartek Konopka.

The untold story of wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When their population grew up to thousands, guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there. Unfortunately one day the wall fell down. Rabbits had to abandon comfortable system. They moved to West Berlin and have been living there in a few colonies since then. They are still learning how to live in the free world, same as we - the citizens of Eastern Europe. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 1976 short experimental film by Gordon Matta-Clark.

This newly assembled work is a rare document of a 1976 Matta-Clark performance in Berlin. The piece begins with the following statement: "In 1976, as part of the Akademie der Kunst and Berliner Festwochen exhibition 'Soho in Berlin,' Gordon Matta-Clark went to Germany with the intention of blowing up a section of the Berlin Wall. Dissuaded by friends from such a suicidal action, the result was the following performance." The film records Matta-Clark as he stencils 'Made in America' on the Wall, affixes commercial advertisements over graffiti, and has a run-in with the police. A remarkable record of a little-known Matta-Clark performance, this work is also a historical time capsule of a political and physical landscape that no longer exists.

is a 1972 experimental film by Lis Rhodes.

It is one of the films that she made in her years as a student in the media course at the North East London Polytechnic. Rhodes' work is recognized for having experimented with the audiovisual language, linking its aesthetic proposal with a political questioning of the conventional forms of both the film field and society.

In Dresden Dynamo, there is an interest in the experimentation of aesthetic forms in cinema. The projected images are a result ‐ apparently accidental ‐ of the use of Letraset and Letratone. Lis Rhodes used the Letratone on an blank soundtrack tape, producing a sequence of particular sounds. The result of this experimentation of the material, as well as the audiovisual language, becomes a game of forms in different patterns of colors, sounds and movements. In this way, the rhythm of the geometric images exposed is consistent with the sounds produced by them. The sequentiality of the visual and sound patterns is reproduced continuously without altering the rhythm, playing with the position of the geometric shapes in terms of depth and movement.

is a 1988 short film by Chris Marker.

We see a shot of the keys of a synthesizer with piano music starting. The camera pans around revealing a cat stretched out on the keyboard "listening" to the music, as the title indicates. Because the cat is not content with just listening, it reacts to key moments in the music. The film is one of three parts to a video anthology called Bestiaire.

is a 1979 short film, conceived & performed by David Van Tieghem, produced and directed by John Sanborn & Kit Fitzgerald.

In Ear to the Ground, David Van Tieghem uses the city of Manhattan as his musical instrument, playing the surfaces of the sidewalks, buildings and phone booths with his drumsticks to elicit an ingenious range of percussive sounds.

is a 1970 film by Werner Herzog.

Dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director, also dwarfs, in a display of mayhem. They gleefully break windows and dishes, cackle maniacally, abandon a running truck to drive itself in circles, engineer food fights and cock fights, look at pin-up magazines, set fire to pots of flowers, kill a large pig, torment some blind dwarfs, and perform a mock crucifixion of a monkey. (caution: contains animal cruelty)

is a 2015 documentary by Laurie Anderson.

A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, then seamlessly weaves together thoughts on Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation, the modern surveillance state, and the artistic lives of dogs, all in elegy for Anderson's beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle.

is a 2019 documentary by Louie Schwartzberg.

Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fantastic Fungi is a revelatory time-lapse journey, about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life.

is a 1969 film by Dariush Mehrjui.

In a small village in Iran, Hassan cherishes his cow more than anything in the world. While he is away, the cow mysteriously dies, and the villagers protectively try to convince Hassan the cow has wandered off. Grief stricken, Hassan begins to believe he is his own beloved bovine.

The film was written by Gholam-Hossein Saedi based on his own play and novel, and starring Ezzatolah Entezami as Masht Hassan. Some critics consider it the first film of the Iranian New Wave.

is a 1990 film by Richard Linklater.

Slacker follows a single day in the life of an ensemble of mostly under-30 bohemians and misfits in Austin, Texas. Where a merry-go-round of amateur philosophers, jilted lovers, inept criminals, aspiring artists, and whacked-out conspiracy theorists searches for a place to be. We meet various eccentric and misfit characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them.

is a 2000 documentary by Agnes Varda.

Her extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for what society throws away.

Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, The Gleaners and I is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.