Essay Film Movies

The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college and...

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean fil...

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied b...

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing...

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

White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the th...

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

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

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

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future possibili...

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination: Celestial...

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

Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of...

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...

A dog's funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a motorbi...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot t...

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to see thi...