Research

Some good examples for 'Poetic Documentary' are as follows:

Rain by Joris Ivens (1929)

- Cinematic Poem.

- No titles or dialogue.

- Purely Visual.

- Shows a city and how it is transformed in the rain.

- Simple.

- Has a sense of movement and rhythm.

Night Mail by Basil Wright, Harry Watt (1936)

- Displays the process of delivering mail in the night - Simple.

- The last 3(ish) minutes are set to a poem that was especially written for the film.

- British Movement/GPO Film Unit.

Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio (1983)

- No conventional narrative.

- No voices - Only music.

- Abstract.

- Contains fragmented pieces of footage.

- Predominant use of time lapse.

- Sequence of sky and landscape that then moves into the city.

- Makes you see things differently.