Essay Film Movies

The second part of the endless series about Moravia offers an even darker descent into the soul of Moravia, which is, however, intoxicating like a...

Experimental documentary dissecting artistic inspiration through raw imagery and collage, aiming to answer a defining question for artists: What to...

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

Musing on the nature of memory, Don Hertzfeldt recounts stories about a kiss from The King, a floating child in a backyard and a giant foot.

A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year...

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

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

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of...

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life.

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by...

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....

A variety of storefront mannequins look at, contemplate on, and talk about public space.