Essay Film Movies

A film essay in which multiple female characters, drawn from different films, slowly overlap and connect through a shared state of melancholy.

Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of...

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

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

In this experimental documentary, a transgender woman reflects on being harassed by a stranger.

This experimental Western horror film set in the Moravian region of Slovácko offers a new take on the legend of Saint Wenceslas. Against the...

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...

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as...

Framed within the genre of "essay film", and with the landscape of Mar de Cobo as its central core, the film explores the limits between documentary...

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

A rose is a rose by any other name would be, well, something different, particularly if the rose was a woman. This tape is a witty and thoughtful...

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

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant and thought-provoking investigation of the nature and experience of time,...

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

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

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