Essay Film Movies

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises,...

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

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,...

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human...

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an...

Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet

In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the...

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir,...

An essay about films about flying.

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

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...

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The...

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