Films like Taming the Garden.

Taming the Garden (2021) reads as Neutral, slow-burn, measured documentary / trees, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020) poster
1. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Tale of King Crab (2021) poster
2. The Tale of King Crab2021

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

We the Animals (2018) poster
3. We the Animals2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015) poster
4. Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cameraperson (2016) (2016) poster
5. Cameraperson2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pendular (2017) poster
6. Pendular2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

36 (2012) poster
7. 362012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

This Is Not a Film (2011) poster
8. This Is Not a Film2011

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Solo, Solitude (2016) poster
9. Solo, Solitude2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Animus Animalis (2018) poster
10. Animus Animalis2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Neon Bull (2015) poster
11. Neon Bull2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015) poster
12. Peace to Us in Our Dreams2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Taming the Garden’s neighbours — where are yours?

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