Movies and TvShows featuring "city-symphony" theme.

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental documentary film that showcases various aspects of urban life in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It is known for its innovative filmmaking techniques and avant-garde style, including the use of montage and the incorporation of a film-within-a-film.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is an experimental film that showcases various aspects of life in Berlin, including its streets, public transportation, city life, and class differences. Through a series of montages and poetic visuals, the film captures the essence of the city during the Weimar Republic era.

À propos de Nice is a satirical and avant-garde silent film that showcases the stark wealth disparity and decadence of the residents of Nice, France. The film combines elements of a travelogue, city symphony, and social satire to create a poetic and visually stunning depiction of life in the French Riviera.

Rain is a poetic documentary film released in 1929, showcasing the various aspects of rain in Amsterdam. It captures the symphony of raindrops hitting the city streets, the reflections in puddles, and the rhythm of raindrops dripping from water pipes. This black-and-white silent film is considered a city symphony and offers a unique glimpse into the atmosphere of Amsterdam in the 1920s.

Manhatta is a silent film documentary that showcases the bustling city of Manhattan in the 1920s. Through stunning visuals and symphonic interludes, it captures the essence of the city with its skyscrapers, bridges, bustling harbor, and iconic landmarks. The film offers a poetic and mesmerizing portrait of New York City during this era.

In the Last Days of the City follows a filmmaker in Cairo, as he tries to capture the essence of the city while facing personal and political struggles. With stunning visuals, the movie portrays the vibrant and ever-changing nature of Cairo.

A Journey takes viewers on a mesmerizing journey through various landscapes and experiences, using stunning cinematography and a non-narrative approach. The film captures the essence of nature and the human spirit, highlighting themes of mindfulness, spirituality, and the interconnectedness of all things.

An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in St. Petersburg, an abandoned video shop in Cairo and cats everywhere you look.

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.

Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.

Filmed images of Liverpool are accompanied by readings of a young woman's letters to her mother, as she contemplates the challenges of finding a home in a new city whilst missing the one she's left behind. Inspired by the work of Chantal Akerman.

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Hart, "If I named the five greatest films [ever made], this has got to be one of them." Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole. The Hart of London is at the centre of Chambers’s extraordinary achievement.

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his wanderings, as his highly subjective journey becomes a fragmented visualization of urban landscapes.

Yo - a hard working salary girl loses her mouth.

A short film about Stockholm. Sweden's first Oscar, 1949 Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

Nothing But Time is an avant-garde symphonic film that portrays the daily struggles and experiences of the working class in 1926 Paris. The film captures the essence of the era, showcasing themes of wealth disparity, poverty, unemployment, and the challenges faced by seamen and the lower class. Through its experimental and silent film techniques, Nothing But Time takes viewers on a journey through the bustling city, offering a glimpse into the reality of life during the early 20th century.

"The theme of the film HIDDEN CITIES is personal urban perceptions, which we call 'the city'. The city, as a living organism, reflecting social processes and interactions, economic relations, political conditions and private matters. In the city, human memories, desires and tragedies find expression in the form of designations and marks engraved in house walls and paving slabs. But what the city really is under this thick layer of signs, what it contains or conceals, is what we are researching in the HIDDEN CITIES project. The source material for the film are 9 sequential photo works created by Gusztáv Hámos between 1975 and 2010. Each of these 'city perceptions' depicts essential situations of urban experiences containing human and inhuman acts in a compact form. The cities in which the photo sequences have been made are Berlin, Budapest and New York – places with a traumatised past: Wars, dictatorships, terrorist catastrophes."

Gubara was proud of the first color film in African cinema, which attempts to give an African response to the city symphony genre by capturing disparate images of daily life in Khartoum and setting it to music, particularly romantic Arabic songs.