Essay Film Movies

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inse...

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 (1988-98);...

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

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptati...

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and th...

"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists of...

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and ot...

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well...

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

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

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

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

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

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich archi...

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 Goe...

What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is, th...

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to Poe’s story.