Essay Film Movies

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

A videographic fantasia on the films of Alfred Hitchcock that quickly veers into controlled insanity. Through fervor and mania, this unconventional...

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the...

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

What do you see when you see a black screen?

An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their...

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

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...

"No Refunds" is a visceral, tangled descent into the transactional dynamics of intimate encounters, told through the language of bodies, sheets, and...

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware,...

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

A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year...

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

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

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

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

An essay about films about flying.