Old Joy
Why this pick
Like Gerry, it finds profound unease and intimacy in a stripped-back journey through open landscapes, using long silences, natural sound, and the shifting bond between two men.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like Gerry, it finds profound unease and intimacy in a stripped-back journey through open landscapes, using long silences, natural sound, and the shifting bond between two men.
Why this pick
A near-wordless, black-and-white immersion in isolation and routine, it shares Gerry’s attention to bodies moving through vast spaces and its willingness to let duration create meaning.
Why this pick
A survival odyssey told with minimal dialogue, it channels Gerry’s elemental focus on disorientation, endurance, and a human figure dwarfed by an unforgiving terrain.
Why this pick
For Gerry’s meditative rigor rather than its literal premise: long takes, repetition, wind-swept bleakness, and near-total narrative reduction create an overwhelming sense of existential attrition.
Why this pick
Van Sant’s later minimalist portrait shares Gerry’s drifting camera, elongated time, sparse speech, and haunting sense of a person gradually disappearing into landscape and routine.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Gerry

Gerry