Video Essay Movies
- 2013
Functions of Film Sound
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This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristi...
- 2024
Daedalus
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"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a n...
- 2018
Wild Plants of Palestine
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Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birz...
- 2023
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker02023HD
Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...
- 2024
RESET
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Commissioned for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) exhibition The Future & Other Fictions, this essayistic collage work explores the ci...
- 2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
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Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulatio...
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal
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Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a trea...
- 2022
Rope’s End
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A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
- 2022
HIPERTEXTO
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- 2024
A Brief History of Circles
A Brief History of Circles02024HD
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
- 2024
Letter to My Tribe
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Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who represents a mo...
- 2022
Martin und Hans
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A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a long-lasting...
- 2024
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)92024HD
A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre.
- 2025
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis02025HD
- 2025
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick02025HD
A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness in...
- 2020
Last Year in Dachau
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Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby...
- 2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
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- 2023
Rat Race : A Short Documentary
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Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student filmmaker...
- 2020
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
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A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna Karina...
- 2024
After James Benning's YouTube
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Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.