Iowa Movies

What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated crushing and scouring effects of glaciers during...

Set in the backwoods of rural Iowa, this is Regan and Addisyn's last summer after high school. Growing up next door to each other, the girls are as...

Shots of 8 bridges from the continental United States - the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito, California; the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge from Arroyo...

The shots used in this piece were from first test shots with the Mobile Phone 60x microscope. Subjects included the fur of a cat, hair of a girl, a...

A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

A found footage film about a radio contest in 1996 Iowa where the last person standing atop a 20ft billboard wins tickets to Super Bowl XXXI

A musical drama set in small-town Iowa, SAINTS REST tells the story of two estranged sisters, who over the course of one summer, form a connection...

Garden of Des Moines is an intimate interview-style short film that follows drag performers in Iowa as they navigate the challenges of being queer in...

In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker...

A Local Iowa documentary about the history of trophy to the Cy-Hawk games.

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than...

The film tells the story of a woman reflecting on a painful part of her past as she writes. Although we do not see what she has written, we do see...

Track Guy Movie chronicles the career of passionate, renowned track and field announcer, Mike Jay. Through the course of an Iowa high school track &...

The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities.

The documentary follows two high school seniors as they attempt to win the State Wrestling Championship in their final season and join the elite list...