Essay Film Movies

Feeling lost, a holidayer takes a vacation, only to discover a world that is as banal as it is hyper-real. A found-footage essay film. A home-movie....

Fake Fiction was initially a play that was turned into a film produced by Theater Basel in 2017. Filip Markiewicz wrote the dialogues in connection...

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

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

A film essay in which multiple female characters, drawn from different films, slowly overlap and connect through a shared state of melancholy.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Ante Meridiem is a sensory journey through the first hours of dawn. Kind but vehement, he explores the dichotomy between silence and bustle, patience...

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

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the...

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

An essay-film about images and politicians.

A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.

By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is...

In the meadow, the boundaries between reality and fiction become almost imperceptible. "Pradera" is a photo essay that explores the themes of...

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic...

Brute Force explores how our knowledge-making practices affect the world. Drawing on quantum theory and geology, the film exposes the intrinsic...

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