Essay Film Movies

A glimpse of life through movement and memory, negotiating a narrative through images and sounds both personal and found, private and public,...

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an...

Chronicles of a male homosexual drug addict in 1980's in voice-over with long take scenes from Rome, television snippets of news of Gulf War and...

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

A year in the life of Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, students of Fine Arts in Paris, lovers in troubled times, overwhelmed by maddening verbal...

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

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

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and...

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and...

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the...

A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography.

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.