Essay Film Movies

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

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...

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

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

A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in...

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life.

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less...

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

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

A film-letter that tells the tale of an unlikely and recurring discussion about the perception of herons in the urban environment. (Un)intentionally,...