Sel Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

"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,...

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

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

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

“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...

"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...

The sights and sounds of a kimchi factory in Vietnam.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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