Essay Film Movies

An essay about films about flying.

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

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

This experimental Western horror film set in the Moravian region of Slovácko offers a new take on the legend of Saint Wenceslas. Against the...

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

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

The Post(?) Feminist Dissonance Project uses a quote by Kathleen Hanna as a prompt, a voicemail box as an interviewing device, found footage as a...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

A look into the career and impact of "classical liberal" talk show host Dave Rubin.

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

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

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

Within photographs that are not their own, a body discovers it has always been part of another.

Amid the chaos of existence, where warmth entwines with cold, passion ignites a fire that both liberates and consumes. Lust whispers sweet nothings,...