Essay Film Movies

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

The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

Pole, who are you? This film collage that combines archival and contemporary materials, documentary and staged pictures, press reports, social...

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything...

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...

In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past...

The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and...

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred...

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

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

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...

A film-maker travels through mountain villages and along the shores of Alpine lakes to investigate the disappearance of Valérie 20 years...

A look into the career and impact of "classical liberal" talk show host Dave Rubin

A woman goes on a strange journey through the woods; Bookended by two dreams.

A video-letter to Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and author of the unforgivable "Art for Dummies".

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to...

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,...