Video Essay Movies

  • 1970
    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    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...

    Sankofa
  • 2023
    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    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...

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary
  • 2023
    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

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    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....

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy
  • 2024
    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    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...

    Letter to My Tribe
  • 2021
    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    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...

    Love in the Time of Corona
  • 2013
    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    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...

    Functions of Film Sound
  • 2023
    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

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    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
  • 1970
    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

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    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...

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)
  • 2023
    Swimming, Dancing

    Swimming, Dancing

    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....

    Swimming, Dancing
  • 2024
    RESET

    RESET

    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...

    RESET
  • 2020
    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    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...

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
  • 2022
    Lullaby of Ukraine

    Lullaby of Ukraine

    Lullaby of Ukraine

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    Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion...Let everyone ask themselves and the leaders of their countries: what...

    Lullaby of Ukraine
  • 1998
    Money, a Mythology of Darkness

    Money, a Mythology of Darkness

    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.

    Money, a Mythology of Darkness