Essay Film Movies

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

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

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

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...

In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the...

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been...

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

The images from the landing of the first expedition of the spaceship Columbia are juxtaposed to a reflection on the function of the visual medium,...

While Trevor and Sam are smoking pot, Trevor’s mom comes home. When she finds out, Trevor reveals his father’s adulterous ways and...

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand...

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

Why do we do incredibly difficult things that have no practical application? Is there a parallel between geographic and artistic exploration? Fram...

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the...

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie...

A meditative essay.

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.