Essay Film Movies

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

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.

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,...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

A variety of storefront mannequins look at, contemplate on, and talk about public space.

Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish...

A film about the city-scape as a diary or essay.

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

In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re­-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In...

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

A written testimony by co-director Jin Ryoo on his experience preparing for Korean compulsory military service is juxtaposed with images of an empty...

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando...

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 an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

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