City Symphony Movies

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

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

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...

"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...

A frenetic found-footage documentary made entirely from “lost” unlabeled media on YouTube - weaving together nearly a thousand raw...

Yo - a hard working salary girl loses her mouth.

"The theme of the film HIDDEN CITIES is personal urban perceptions, which we call 'the city'. The city, as a living organism, reflecting social...

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

Compiled from stock footage, Livestock is a visual poem exploring the digital, physical and metaphysical synergy of the modern workplace.

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...

Portrait of a waterpark.

Pikk Street is one of the most important thoroughfares of Tallinn’s Old Town. The picture playfully combines hidden camera footage with more...

Two friends travel around the city of Reno, Nevada, and go skating at a nearby parking garage.

The last days of summer captured on 16mm.

A "city symphony" film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their 1963 conference in Chicago, City to See is a...

Six lives intersect in a city symphony of chance encounters.