Essay Film Movies
- 2020
The Rising of the Moon
The Rising of the Moon02020HD
Produced by MUBI, The Rising of the Moon is a video essay which explores the struggle for independence as it has been portrayed throughout the history...
- 2022
Velvet Bayou
Velvet Bayou02022HD
A short film essay on Blue Velvet (1986) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). The fact that Blue Velvet was almost shot in black and white is explore...
- 2025
The Making of Michel Petite
The Making of Michel Petite02025HD
The film shows the behind-the-scenes process of making a documentary about an author known for their autofiction stories. By including its own behind-...
- 2020
Pineapple
Pineapple02020HD
A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor quali...
- 2019
Last Year at Marienbad A-Z
Last Year at Marienbad A-Z72019HD
Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet
- 2005
A Way
A Way02005HD
"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is th...
- 2015
Genoveva
Genoveva02015HD
A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture, conversati...
- 2023
A Dança dos Mosquitos
A Dança dos Mosquitos02023HD
- 2013
Fragments of the House of Usher
Fragments of the House of Usher4.32013HD
A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to Poe’s story.
- 1968
O malém světě
O malém světě01968HD
- 2022
Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee
Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee02022HD
A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration – and i...
- 1976
FFG: un retrato
FFG: un retrato71976HD
An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.
- 2022
Ante Meridiem
Ante Meridiem02022HD
Ante Meridiem is a sensory journey through the first hours of dawn. Kind but vehement, he explores the dichotomy between silence and bustle, patience...
- 2020
Lejano Interior
Lejano Interior102020HD
A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.
- 2019
Alleen op de Wereld
Alleen op de Wereld02019HD
We get up, go to work, eat and go to bed. Is our life about daily rituals or is there a deeper, more inscrutable meaning of life? Kjeld lives surround...
- 2019
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy02019HD
The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The collage o...
- 2022
Äskhult - The Eternal Place
Äskhult - The Eternal Place02022HD
In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past is ke...
- 2017
EMPATHY (a digital love letter)
EMPATHY (a digital love letter)02017HD
EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke empa...
- 2024
Director's First Minute After Death
Director's First Minute After Death102024HD
The reflection of the first visions experienced by a young experimental film director after death. A film centered on understanding death itself as qu...
- 2021
O Cinema é Minha Vida
O Cinema é Minha Vida52021HD
In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory