Visual Essays: Origins of Film

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have...

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...

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children...

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political...

She is defined; from birth on. The role she has to play, who she is and what she is made of is not determined by her. If one’s own body and...

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the...

After receiving a phone call, a man feels his inner world come to a standstill. Recalling the event decades later, he relives how everything changed...

Alinur, a student filmmaker, tries to make a film about the apocalypse for his capstone project. The movie itself happens to be about a mercenary...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

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...