Essay Film Movies

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

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 photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

Everyday Maneuver is a video that presents the viewer with an unrealistic scenery. Shot from a drone, it shows a city at daytime, but there isn't a...

The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir,...

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

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

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

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

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re­-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

Originally produced anonymously and distributed by RTMark, Untitled #29.95 tells the story of the commercial art establishment's attempt to turn...

A film about the city-scape as a diary or essay.

A written testimony by co-director Jin Ryoo on his experience preparing for Korean compulsory military service is juxtaposed with images of an empty...