Essay Film Movies

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title...

She is defined; from birth on. The role she has to play, who she is and what she is made of is not determined by her. If one’s own body and...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how...

In an open letter to the most influential modern Indian political leader, the Late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the filmmaker sequentially narrates...

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...

A mythic narrative inspired by the common threads of Arnold Schwarzenegger's filmography and biographical trajectory.

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too,...

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been...

A critical animated essay on the current global state of society. Among other things, it deals with neoliberalism and the need for endless growth.

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 meditative essay.