Essay Film Movies

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...

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a...

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

A critical animated essay on the current global state of society. Among other things, it deals with neoliberalism and the need for endless growth.

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves. What begins...

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in...

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

Artists Nathalie Gabrielsson and Peter Sköld uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the...

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

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...