Essay Film Movies

EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke empa...

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college and...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot t...

The reflection of the first visions experienced by a young experimental film director after death. A film centered on understanding death itself as qu...

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by Superstud...

The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title (published in 1990)...

Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter - a traditional painter who uses the concepts of XVIII century Shih-T'ao.

Emotional Landscapes explores memory though narrative elements of fiction and essay components. Without protagonist, a narrator guides us through reco...

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present, reflecting...

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

What do you see when you see a black screen?

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...

A hole gapes in a house wall. A small flaw, something imperfect that we seldom consciously direct our attention to. Filmmaker Ondřej Vavrečka finds ho...

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too, which is when...

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have loved a...

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

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