Sel Movies

  • 2012
    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.62012HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    Leviathan
  • 2013
    Manakamana

    Manakamana

    Manakamana

    7.52013HD

    A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.

    Manakamana
  • 2009
    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

    6.82009HD

    An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

    Sweetgrass
  • 2023
    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.32023HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica
  • 2017
    Caniba

    Caniba

    Caniba

    5.62017HD

    Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

    Caniba
  • 2013
    Yumen

    Yumen

    Yumen

    72013HD

    Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth,...

    Yumen
  • 2017
    Somniloquies

    Somniloquies

    Somniloquies

    7.62017HD

    Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

    Somniloquies
  • 2009
    Terrace of the Sea

    Terrace of the Sea

    Terrace of the Sea

    02009HD

    Filmed in an unofficial Palestinian Bedouin camp established in 1948 on a stretch of beach north of Tyre, in South Lebanon, Terrace of the Sea uses a...

    Terrace of the Sea
  • 2008
    Demolition

    Demolition

    Demolition

    92008HD

    "If the old doesn't go, the new never comes" recites a teenager hanging out near a demolition site in the center of Chengdu, the Sichuan capital in...

    Demolition
  • 2014
    Single Stream

    Single Stream

    Single Stream

    52014HD

    Single Stream explores a recycling facility in the Boston area, where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted daily. Blurring the line between...

    Single Stream
  • 2007
    Songhua

    Songhua

    Songhua

    02007HD

    In northeastern China the Songhua River flows west from the border of Russia to the city of Harbin, where four million people depend on it as a...

    Songhua
  • 2016
    An Aviation Field

    An Aviation Field

    An Aviation Field

    7.52016HD

    Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project...

    An Aviation Field
  • 2010
    Hell Roaring Creek

    Hell Roaring Creek

    Hell Roaring Creek

    02010HD

    A static camera records the coming of day as a flock of sheep cross the titular stream in a painterly pastoral to restore the senses through a...

    Hell Roaring Creek
  • 2015
    Ah Humanity!

    Ah Humanity!

    Ah Humanity!

    02015HD

    “Ah humanity! reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its...

    Ah Humanity!
  • 2017
    La Libertad

    La Libertad

    La Libertad

    5.32017HD

    Produced out of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, Laura Huertas Millán's quietly masterful La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers...

    La Libertad
  • 2007
    Still Life

    Still Life

    Still Life

    02007HD

    "The Arab governments pushed us out of our homes... I was twelve years old… I've been here for 60 years." A beautiful, poignant documentary,...

    Still Life
  • 2022
    Expedition Content

    Expedition Content

    Expedition Content

    02022HD

    Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this...

    Expedition Content
  • 2016
    Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi

    Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi

    Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi

    5.52016HD

    The sights and sounds of a kimchi factory in Vietnam.

    Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
  • 2009
    chronotope 1

    chronotope 1

    chronotope 1

    02009HD

    Created as a looping gallery piece, chronotope 1 comments on time, space, context and contingency and asks the viewer to consider a cow standing...

    chronotope 1
  • 2017
    Composite

    Composite

    Composite

    02017HD

    An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point the police composite sketch, playing with the sketching process in order to investigate...

    Composite