Essay Film Movies

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was...

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat?...

In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its...

Humankind has always dreamt of the night sky. Of the infinite freedom offered by the black void, and of the strong, shining beacon inviting us to...

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the...

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema,...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman...

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art...

An essay-film about images and politicians.

A glimpse of life through movement and memory, negotiating a narrative through images and sounds both personal and found, private and public,...

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The...

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by...

Alinur, a student filmmaker, tries to make a film about the apocalypse for his capstone project. The movie itself happens to be about a mercenary...

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in...