Essay Film Movies

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the...

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

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

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

Brute Force explores how our knowledge-making practices affect the world. Drawing on quantum theory and geology, the film exposes the intrinsic...

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

Timothy Connor died during a spring break weekend in 1967, the victim of a car accident. 56 years later, his soul finally arrives at the pier....

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been...

Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. She is the other gaze is a collaboration with five female visual artists...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration,...

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

A group of musicians seem isolated from the world playing beautiful pieces. But in the darkness of the night, and from their minds, there are...

Within photographs that are not their own, a body discovers it has always been part of another.

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

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

Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a...

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