Video Essay Movies
- 2024
A Brief History of Circles
A Brief History of Circles02024HD
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
- 2023
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker02023HD
Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...
- 2024
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick02024HD
A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness in...
- 2024
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis02024HD
- 2024
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens02024HD
A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films Limited Edition BluRay on 10/31/2024.
- 2024
Daedalus
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"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a n...
- 2013
Functions of Film Sound
Functions of Film Sound02013HD
This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristi...
- 2023
Swimming, Dancing
Swimming, Dancing02023HD
Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present),from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired...
- 2022
Rope’s End
Rope’s End1.52022HD
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
- 2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey22020HD
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulatio...
- 2020
Last Year in Dachau
Last Year in Dachau42020HD
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby...
- 2023
Rat Race : A Short Documentary
Rat Race : A Short Documentary02023HD
Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student filmmaker...
- 2024
Letter to My Tribe
Letter to My Tribe02024HD
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who represents a mo...
- 2018
Wild Plants of Palestine
Wild Plants of Palestine02018HD
Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birz...
- 2024
no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)
no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)02024HD
YouTuber Jeffiot goes digging for the origins of skull trumpet / doot doot / mr skeltal, and ends up taking a trip to the early web heyday of animated...
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal
A Weak & Panicked Animal02024HD
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a trea...
- 2023
CARA-B
CARA-B02023HD
A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power of...
- 2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein1.52023HD
- 2024
After James Benning's YouTube
After James Benning's YouTube02024HD
Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.
- 2022
HIPERTEXTO
HIPERTEXTO102022HD