Essay Film Movies

In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the...

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing...

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to...

What do you see when you see a black screen?

After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The...

A dog's funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a...

Parables, ghost stories, and fables. In the meadow, the boundaries between reality and fiction become almost imperceptible. "Pradera" is a photo...

A film essay loosely based on LIMITE (1931) and TRICÔ E PITANGAS (2011), shot during film production classes.

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

A film about the city-scape as a diary or essay.

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean...

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present,...

A hole gapes in a house wall. A small flaw, something imperfect that we seldom consciously direct our attention to. Filmmaker Ondřej...

Blurred footage of a plane and fading overlays of the San Diego landscape intertwine with the writer's journey as he writes Lament I in the moment...

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...

Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet

A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in...

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...