Essay Film Movies

His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at a time....

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaboratin...

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an u...

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the Spanish...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in...

The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and teacher...

1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack of...

A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to Poe’s story.

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot t...

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and c...

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.