Essay Film Movies

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too, which is when...

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have loved a...

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

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay documentary ab...

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

A short film essay on Blue Velvet (1986) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). The fact that Blue Velvet was almost shot in black and white is explore...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less c...

A film essay loosely based on LIMITE (1931) and TRICÔ E PITANGAS (2011),shot during film production classes.

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet about the debut of Monsieur Hulot

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them...

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, a book she lo...

Blurred footage of a plane and fading overlays of the San Diego landscape intertwine with the writer's journey as he writes Lament I in the moment tha...

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

An essay about films about flying.

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant and thought-provoking investigation of the nature and experience of time, and its...

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be pr...