Essay Film Movies

An essay film in which three young people unearth a clandestine archive of Brazilian cinema and plunge into a Dadaist–Third World delirium....

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people...

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...

White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the...

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children...

On America’s 250th anniversary, with attacks on libraries, archives, universities, and commemorative landmarks, the story of a nation’s...

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to...

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

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

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...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich...

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

Weeping Rocks follows Art, an entomologist nearing the end of his life, who has spent over five decades walking the same ten trails counting...

I am grateful to the Chinese for the invention of gunpowder — it feels as if they made it for me. Its discovery happened by accident,...

In home-movies shot in the ‘90s by her father, the filmmaker discovers in these inherited images powerful fictions of the Argentinian middle...

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban...

With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once...