Essay Film Movies

  • 2024
    I don't want to have to be loud

    I don't want to have to be loud

    I don't want to have to be loud

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    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...

    I don't want to have to be loud
  • 1970
    The Swedish Troll Factory

    The Swedish Troll Factory

    The Swedish Troll Factory

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

    The Swedish Troll Factory
  • 2024
    Sinergia

    Sinergia

    Sinergia

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    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...

    Sinergia
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

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

    After James Benning's YouTube
  • 2019
    A Film Inspired by Real Events

    A Film Inspired by Real Events

    A Film Inspired by Real Events

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    Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

    A Film Inspired by Real Events
  • 2020
    Asuka Attacks Herself

    Asuka Attacks Herself

    Asuka Attacks Herself

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    A psychological exploration of the mind of the young Evangelion pilot Asuka.

    Asuka Attacks Herself
  • 2022
    Essay on color and its absence

    Essay on color and its absence

    Essay on color and its absence

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    An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

    Essay on color and its absence
  • 2019
    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

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    The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title...

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology
  • 2017
    Karl's Perfect Day

    Karl's Perfect Day

    Karl's Perfect Day

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    A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

    Karl's Perfect Day
  • 1977
    Mission to Mongo

    Mission to Mongo

    Mission to Mongo

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    First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...

    Mission to Mongo
  • 2011
    Diario ruso

    Diario ruso

    Diario ruso

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    Diario ruso
  • 2016
    From the West

    From the West

    From the West

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    A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in...

    From the West
  • 1984
    Visual Essays: Origins of Film

    Visual Essays: Origins of Film

    Visual Essays: Origins of Film

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

    Visual Essays: Origins of Film
  • 2014
    32+4

    32+4

    32+4

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    The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college...

    32+4
  • 2014
    Las Vegas Meditation

    Las Vegas Meditation

    Las Vegas Meditation

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    Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA...

    Las Vegas Meditation
  • 2013
    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

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

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks
  • 2025
    Wading through Godot

    Wading through Godot

    Wading through Godot

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    two friends sit on a park bench, considering a video adaptation of Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy on things never completed, and what it means to...

    Wading through Godot
  • 1970
    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

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

    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters
  • 1996
    Neuerburg

    Neuerburg

    Neuerburg

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    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...

    Neuerburg
  • 2019
    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE

    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE

    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE

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    The times are fueled by anxiety, and our tweets will not say the opposite. A feeling of the end of the world hangs over our economic model. The...

    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE