List of feature films described as non-narrative explained

The distinction between non-narrative film and "narrative films" can be rather vague and is open for interpretation. Few filmmakers would define their works as non-narrative. The following list contains films which have been described as "non-narrative" by independent sources.

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Title	Year	Country	Director(s)	Cinematographer(s)	Music	class=unsortable
13 Lakes	2004	United States	James Benning	James Benning		^[1] ^[2]
23rd Psalm Branch	1967	United States	Stan Brakhage			^[3]
	1930	France		Albert Duverger	Luis Buñuel, Georges van Parys
Alice (Neco z Alenky)	1988	Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, West Germany	Jan Švankmajer	Svatopluk Malý
Anima Mundi	1992	Italy, United States	Godfrey Reggio	Graham Berry	Philip Glass	^[4]
Ashes and Snow	2005	United States	Gregory Colbert		Gregory Colbert	^[5]
Atlantis	1991	France, Italy	Luc Besson	Luc Besson	Éric Serra	^[6]
Baraka	1992	United States	Ron Fricke	Ron Fricke	Michael Stearns	^[7]
Bestiaire	2012	Canada, France		Vincent Biron		^[8]
Blue	1993	Japan, United Kingdom	Derek Jarman		Simon Fisher-Turner	^[9]
Bodysong	2003	United Kingdom	Simon Pummell		Jonny Greenwood	^[10]
Chronos	1985	United States	Ron Fricke	Ron Fricke	Michael Stearns	^[11]
	2010	United Kingdom	Christian Marclay
Decasia	2002	United States	Bill Morrison		Michael Gordon
Delirium	2013	Ukraine	Ihor Podolchak	Mykola Yefymenko	Alexander Shchetynsky
Diva Dolorosa	1999	Netherlands			Loek Dikker
	2004	France	Patrice Leconte	Jean-Marie Dreujou	Étienne Perruchon	^[12]
Earth from Above	2004	France	Renaud Delourme	Laurent Fleutot, Daniel Marchetti	Armand Amar
Epic Java	2013	Indonesia	Febian Nurrahman Saktinegara	Febian Nurrahman Saktinegara	Denny Novandi Ryan
	1980	United Kingdom	Peter Greenaway	Mike Coles, John Rosenberg	Michael Nyman
Field Niggas	2015	United States	Khalik Allah	Khalik Allah		^[13]
Film Socialisme	2010	France, Switzerland	Jean-Luc Godard	Fabrice Aragno, Paul Grivas
(Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland)	1977	France, United Kingdom, West Germany		Dietrich Lohmann
Koyaanisqatsi	1982	United States			Philip Glass	^[14] ^[15]
	1987	United Kingdom, West Germany	Derek Jarman	Tim Burke, Richard Heslop, Christopher Hughes, Derek Jarman, Cerith Wyn Evans	Simon Fisher-Turner
Las Meninas	2008	Ukraine	Ihor Podolchak	Serhiy Mykhalchuk	Alexander Shchetynsky	^[16]
Laya Project	2007	India	Harold Monfils	Yuk Hoy Cheong, Agung Dewantoro	Yotam Agam, Patrick Sabag	^[17]
Leviathan	2012	France, United Kingdom, United States	Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel	Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel		^[18]
Lines	2016	Greece	Vassilis Mazomenos	George Papandrikopoulos	Dna	^[19]
Man with a Movie Camera	1929	Soviet Union	Dziga Vertov	Mikhail Kaufman, Gleb Troyanski		^[20] -^[21]
Microcosmos	1996	France, Italy, Switzerland	Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou	Thierry Machado	Bruno Coulais
	1975	Soviet Union	Andrei Tarkovsky	Georgi Rerberg	Eduard Artemyev
Naqoyqatsi	2002	United States	Godfrey Reggio	Russell Lee Fine	Philip Glass
Palestrina - Prince of Music	2009	Italy	Georg Brintrup	Benny Hasenclever, Paolo Scarfò, Oliver Kochs	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
	2011	Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Denmark	Roy Andersson	István Borbás, Gergely Pálos	Stock music from various sources, The Battle Hymn of the Republic prominently featured	^[22]
Powaqqatsi	1988	United States	Godfrey Reggio	Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis	Philip Glass
Ruhr	2009	Germany	James Benning	James Benning
Sacred Site	1986	United States	Ron Fricke	Ron Fricke		^[23]
	2011	United States	Ron Fricke	Ron Fricke	Marcello de Francisci, Lisa Gerrard, Michael Stearns	^[24]
Silence Above the Clouds (Ticho nad oblakmi)	2009	Slovakia	Pavol Barabáš	Pavol Barabáš	Maok Martin Tesak
Sixty Spanish Cigarettes	2015	Spain	Mark John Ostrowski	Mark John Ostrowski	Gabriel Prada	^[25]
Sophie's Place	1986	United States	Larry Jordan
Sweetgrass	2009	France, United Kingdom, United States	Lucien Castaing-Taylor	Lucien Castaing-Taylor		^[26]
	2000	United States	James Benning	James Benning		^[27]
Visitors	2013	United States	Godfrey Reggio	Graham Berry, Trish Govoni, Tom Lowe	Philip Glass	^[28]
	2011	Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands	Victor Kossakovsky	Victor Kossakovsky	Alexander Popov	^[29]
Walden (Diaries Notes and Sketches)	1969	United States	Jonas Mekas	Jonas Mekas
Winged Migration	2001	France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United States	Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats	Various	Bruno Coulais	^[30]
Zorns Lemma	1970	United States	Hollis Frampton

See also

• • Nonlinear narrative
  • List of nonlinear narrative films
• Slow cinema
• Structural film
• Surrealist cinema

Notes and References

1. Web site: 13 Lakes 2005 Tribeca Festival . 2024-07-03 . Tribeca.
2. Web site: Connerly . Courtney . 2024-03-20 . A Novel on Documentary Film . 2024-07-03 . Medium . en.
3. Web site: Be Very Afraid: The Best Experimental (Non-Narrative) Features, Part I. Atkinson. Michael. Fandor. September 18, 2015.
4. Web site: Anima Mundi . Spirit of Baraka.
5. Web site: 2014-01-28 . "Ashes and Snow" – Gregory Colbert The Forest . 2024-07-03 . en-US.
6. Web site: 2017-11-21 . Atlantis - Courte-Focale.fr - Grand angle sur le Cinéma ! Courte-Focale.fr – Grand angle sur le Cinéma ! . 2024-07-03 . Courte-Focale.fr – Grand angle sur le Cinéma ! . fr-FR.
7. Web site: Baraka: 10 Most Visually Stunning Moments In The Film. McIntosh. Cody. February 2, 2020. Screen Rant. June 6, 2020.
8. Web site: Tënk . 2024-07-03 . Tënk . fr-FR.
9. Web site: Be Very Afraid: The Best Experimental (Non-Narrative) Features, Part II. Atkinson. Michael. Fandor. September 11, 2015.
10. Castelo-Branco . Mafalda . 2018-09-28 . Found Footage e a memória humana em Bodysong e Life in a Day . DOC On-line . pt . 24 . 80–90 . 10.20287/doc.d24.dt05 . 1646-477X.
11. Book: Magill, Frank Northen . Magill's Cinema Annual: 1986 . 1986-11-15 . Cengage Gale . 978-0-89356-405-6 . en.
12. Web site: Dogora - Ouvrons les yeux de Patrice Leconte (2004) - Unifrance . 2024-07-03 . www.unifrance.org.
13. Web site: Lexington One Two Five: Experimental Doc 'Field Niggas' Puts You There All Night. Scherstuhl. Alan. October 13, 2015. The Village Voice. June 6, 2020.
14. Book: Fulton. Helen. Huisman. Rosemary. Murphet. Julian. Dunn. Anne. 2006. Narrative and Media. Cambridge University Press. 63. 978-0521617420. "Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1983) and Powaqqatsi (1988) are non-narrative films, [...]".
15. Book: Hexel, Vasco. 2018. The Film and Media Creators' Guide to Music. Routledge. 978-1138055728. "Geoffrey Reggio's groundbreaking series of non-narrative montage films Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988), and Naqoyqatsi (2002) is accompanied by minimalist music by composer Philip Glass.".
16. Web site: Las meninas . 2024-07-04 . IFFR EN . en-GB.
17. Web site: Harvard College Calendar . 2024-07-04 . Harvard College Calendar . en.
18. News: Pulver . Andrew . 2013-06-28 . Edinburgh gives top award to experimental documentary Leviathan . 2024-07-04 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
19. Web site: S.O.S. Grèce. Castiel. Elie. December 31, 2017. Séquences. fr. December 31, 2017.
20. Web site: Teare . Kendall . 2019-08-12 . Yale film scholar on Dziga Vertov, the enigma with a movie camera . 2024-07-08 . YaleNews . en.
21. Web site: PH . 2015-07-23 . Man With a Movie Camera review: montage spinning out of control . 2024-07-03 . Silent London . en.
22. Hanke. Bob. 2019. Roy Andersson's Living Trilogy and Jean-Luc Nancy's Evidence of Cinema. Film-Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. 23. 1. 72–92 . 10.3366/film.2019.0099. free.
23. Web site: "Sacred Site", A short film in 65mm Omnimax . 2024-07-04 . www.in70mm.com.
24. Web site: Keefe . Brad . March 17, 2020 . Movies to stream from home amid growing coronavirus shutdowns . June 6, 2020 . Columbus Alive.
25. Web site: From Lynch to Kiarostami to Ozu: See Where Your Favorite Directors Fall on Paul Schrader's Chart of Non-Narrative Cinema. O'Falt. Chris. May 24, 2018. IndieWire. September 4, 2018.
26. Web site: "Sweetgrass": Spectacular elegy for a dying West. O'Hehir. Andrew. January 5, 2010. Salon. June 6, 2020.
27. Web site: Cinema Fulgor . 2024-07-04 . Cinema Fulgor . en-US.
28. Web site: Boone . Steven . Visitors movie review & film summary (2014) Roger Ebert . 2024-07-04 . rogerebert.com/ . en.
29. Web site: ¡Vivan las Antipodas! – Films . 2024-07-03 . Visions du Réel . fr-FR.
30. Web site: How March of the Penguins ruined the nature documentary. VanDerWerff. Emily. April 19, 2015. Vox. June 6, 2020.