Essay Film Movies

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

A group of musicians seem isolated from the world playing beautiful pieces. But in the darkness of the night, and from their minds, there are melancho...

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

Originally produced anonymously and distributed by RTMark, Untitled #29.95 tells the story of the commercial art establishment's attempt to turn video...

What do you see when you see a black screen?

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them...

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The virtual journ...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

The author's personal confession. This essay film about the relationship between father and son is filmed exclusively in 16mm film in Prague, Slovenia...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

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

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

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...