Symbolism Movies

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

A rare clip from 1994 warning of the dangers that lurk in America: homosexuals and Satanists.

After the death of his father, Kiril realizes that one day he will die too. Searching for some meaning, he ventures into his memories, and they take...

The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting,...

Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood...

Full of determination and uncertainty, Nutmeg pursues her daydream to escape a dull reality with a Walkman and her case of few sentimental belongings.

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.

In a world where the real and the virtual overlap, a character tries in vain to escape the solitude in which spectacular-market society envelops us...

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he...

"A Lovely Place." by Melissa Adam Paulo Barbosa Inspired by Hotel California Hotels are familiar, but they are never truly home... Where every...

In a desolate world of endless horizons, black-clad figures drift through shifting states of emotion, identity, and self.

A tormented painter, consumed by grief, begins a surreal journey after a visit from his partner. Through symbols and inner trials, he finds the...

Peccatum is a poetic coming-of-age story about two young women growing up in a secluded Christian community. When one of them loses her parents, she...

A young man spends one evening chasing an idea that won't come, crumpling page after page until even the light in his room starts to give up with him.

From Malkuth to Kether and back, the whole spin of the wheel. A retelling of a series of dreams and visions experienced by the director in her Great...