Essay Film Movies

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art commission...

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

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand Prize at the I...

Amid the chaos of existence, where warmth entwines with cold, passion ignites a fire that both liberates and consumes. Lust whispers sweet nothings, y...

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

Produced by MUBI, The Rising of the Moon is a video essay which explores the struggle for independence as it has been portrayed throughout the history...

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at differen...

A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor quali...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing...

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

The world’s museums are closed. What are you missing?  Take a real-time walk through the Louvre towards the “greatest painting ever” and contemplate...

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

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life.

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.