Urban Life Movies

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

When the individual lifestyles of the embodiments of urban and nature meet... They clash, and create a new parasitic relationship.

Determined to hold on to their moniker of "the Mural Kings," world-renowned artists Tats Cru produce a wall painting for Harlem's Graffiti Hall of...

The Weezers live in a big-city tenement. Ethel smokes cigars and crunches her beer can when she's finished; Earl shuffles and stutters, reduced to...

Tokyo. Kazu and Tatsu are two salary men in their thirties. One night, after work, they get drunk and decide to tell each other their deepest secrets...

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also...

Five stories about dignity in the capital of Peru. A local leader looking for someone to leave the post of her complex work, a tourist guide who is a...

This short documentary follows three Indigenous women as they practice ancestral forms of worship: drumming, singing, and using sweetgrass. These...

Tokyo, the largest city in the world, wants to create a new urban culture. It is returning to the urban traditions and building techniques of the...

Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get...

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

A young woman arrives in a city for the first time. She observes the people around her and realizes that she does not belong to that world,...

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is...