Essay Film Movies

This film essay is inspired by Leonid Trauberg's eponymous autobiographical text. It also sheds light on his public condemnation in 1949 as a leader...

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

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

A meditative essay.

CREMASTER 4 adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

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...

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

Technological advances and cultural development have disrupted the balance between humankind and other animals. Instead of looking at similarities,...

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less...

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

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...

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

A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...