Minimalism Movies

They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less.

I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The first performance of the work...

Herbstlaub is a coming-of-age road movie about a dot.

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

A couple goes away for the weekend to discover new experiences and reignite their passions with a mysterious woman named, M.

Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

In a silent world ruled by routine and precision, a man's search for order reveals a deep inner disturbance that leads him to a sudden moment of...

After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic...

What does it mean to be free? The Cocoon explores the feeling of imprisonment experienced by women who try to find freedom – not only in times...

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

Featuring notable Minimalist artists such as Bride Marden, Claes Oldenburg, and Donald Judd, What is Minimalism: The American Perspective 1958-1968...

A short-action-art film depicting a story of biblical proportions where the suppressed (a collection of societal minorities) overthrow the juxtaposed...

In a post-apocalyptic future a man and a woman find comfort in the long-forgotten emotion of sexual love.

A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the...

A collection of solitary urban images intersect with each other.

Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer,...

In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat...

The New Mother Earth is a documentary film by Michael Lanfield, based on his book of the same name. With forewords by Damien Mander, Freelee the...