Melancholy Movies

A girl reminiscences the conversations and past memories by listening to a vinyl left behind by her dead lover.

Saudade. (n.) an intense longing for someone or something that is absent. it's the mixture of feelings of loss, distance, and love. it's a deep...

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

Three high school students deal with mental health struggles throughout the school day before Thanksgiving.

A harrowing look into the daily struggle of an average water bottle.

Sonder is a trilingual (in English, Hindi, and Punjabi) mood piece about the ordinariness of life. It is a celebration of the seemingly simple,...

After losing her grandfather when she was less than a year old, a now very conflicted teen must learn how to navigate her grief even though she...

A short put together through old home videos on a camcorder of my childhood.

A young mime struggles with financial hardships and attempts to find hope in their solitary life.

A few minutes in the life of two people: a young woman who has her whole life in front of her and an old man ill with asthma who has only one more...

Henry is a slacker floating through young adulthood earning a measly income from selling his body as a human punching bag. Meanwhile he wonders if...

A woman tries to stave off misgivings about her long-time boyfriend as she desperately attempts to recreate the best days of their relationship.

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic,...

A terminally ill father finds a cure through natural medicine, despite his daughter's wishes, but in the process, he loses his humanity to the forest.