Essay Film Movies

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the...

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

His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at...

A girl mixes fiction with reality while writing a letter to her grandmother.

"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who...

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a...

A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration...

A group of musicians seem isolated from the world playing beautiful pieces. But in the darkness of the night, and from their minds, there are...

In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the...

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

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

An innocent essay in a college-creative writing class sets off a terrifying and deadly chain of events. Will they be able to stop her, or will she...

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art...

For a few years, I have written notes that are addressed to my sister during the very long and stressful process of her eating disorder and anorexia...

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...