Desert Movies

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

Utilizing super 8mm and an economical shooting method of quick, short shots building idiosyncratic rhythms via rapid editing techniques, time,...

A lone truck driver drives his load, a ferris wheel, through a remote desert landscape. Trapped in his fears and habits, he hardly dares to step out...

With the ecosystem destroyed after a nuclear war, Mari, a survivor, does all she can to rebuild. When she stumbles upon a robot soldier in an...

A short documentary about Father Christmas' annual six-day trek through the Australian desert aboard the Tea and Sugar Train.

Bermuda is a film about love

Zibeon Fielding, Aboriginal TSI man and long distance runner is preparing to run a crazy 62 kilometres. Driven by passion to help those he loves,...

They say that a certain wind from California makes people irritable. Halfway between documentary and experimental film, Santa Ana explores the...

A movie about the gas mine workers in the scorching hot desert of Karakum, Turkmenistan.

In 1973 Roberto Saldivar was arrested and imprisoned in an old Salpetermine in northern Chile. The mine was used as concentrationcamp for political...

Max Boden, an ingenuitive desert naturalist, is trying to stop the construction of a copper mine on the outskirts of 1939 Tucson, Arizona. Through a...

A rancher, thrown from his horse, must cross an inhospitable desert and avoid those who live there.

This short travelogue, touring Arizona's deserts, was shot in VistaVision.

Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired...

In the desert, a man extracts stones from a mountain and breaks them. In his perpetual labour, he meditates upon life and death.

Based on a short story by Ibrahim al-Kawni that deals with the issues of mortality, the film adaptation is used to condemn those who planted...

Marcus Flaminius Rufus is in search of a river that will give him immortality. Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

In a vast, open desert landscape, two strangers with troubled pasts collide.

For the Serrano and Cahuilla peoples, the desert was home. For hardy prospectors and ranchers, for William Keyes and his family, the desert offered...