Essay Movies

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

An orphan narrates his essay “What is Family?” and how he found his answer when he met “Surfing Uncle” developing a bond like a father, uncle, grandfa...

Scored by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches and produced by Junk Food Dinner, SINCE I LEFT YOU is a visual essay about synchronicity, e...

The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has bee...

An essay/documentary film that meditates on the concept of life, living & surviving. It tries to raise the questions on how we live, why we live the w...

An auteur-director who wishes to make a documentary about Armenia imagines a fictitious character that has the ability to travel through bodies. The l...

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie from th...

The filmmaker's mother describes stories of his lustful youth over the phone, causing them to reflect on his current love life at the age of 30.

Bounded Intimacy (part of the trilogy of Super 8mm shorts It’s Just Business, Baby) examines the histories of various forms of body labor across the C...

What is a film if not a therapeutic act? Wa(te)r is a poetiс reflection on my 2022–2023 diary entries, poured from one medium to another. I uncovered...

Six million tons, suspended by the slightest gesture. Mother of the World presents a series of brief vignettes of Cairo just prior to the 2011 Egypti...