Essay Film Movies

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human an...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

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

The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title (published in 1990)...

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...

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,...

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by Superstud...

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

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptati...

A hole gapes in a house wall. A small flaw, something imperfect that we seldom consciously direct our attention to. Filmmaker Ondřej Vavrečka finds ho...

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...

Why do we do incredibly difficult things that have no practical application? Is there a parallel between geographic and artistic exploration? Fram is...

"In ancient China the tiger skin represented 'continuous change'. In the Maya’s world, Bolom Chon’s (jaguar) hide, allowed the constellations to be r...

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