Essay Film Movies

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

Parables, ghost stories, and fables. In the meadow, the boundaries between reality and fiction become almost imperceptible. "Pradera" is a photo...

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

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

"In ancient China the tiger skin represented 'continuous change'. In the Maya’s world, Bolom Chon’s (jaguar) hide, allowed the...

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The collage...

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror...

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

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...

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination:...

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

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises,...

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