Video Essay Movies
- 2023
Swimming, Dancing
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Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present),from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired...
- 2025
no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)
no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)02025HD
YouTuber Jeffiot goes digging for the origins of skull trumpet / doot doot / mr skeltal, and ends up taking a trip to the early web heyday of animated...
- 2024
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens02024HD
A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.
- 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...
- 2021
Love in the Time of Corona
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A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you are...
- 2025
The Present Situation
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The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who kidnap a hedge-...
- 2023
CARA-B
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A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power of...
- 2022
reminiscence on the garden
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A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that...
- 2023
Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy
Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy02023HD
An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir. Cha...
- 1998
Money, a Mythology of Darkness
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In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.
- 2025
Sankofa
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A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's three students from the Superior School of Arts and D...