Essay Film Movies

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by...

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

An enigmatic glimpse of life through precarious vignettes, propelling a narrative through a nebulous and opaque structure that sutures the...

Emotional Landscapes explores memory though narrative elements of fiction and essay components. Without protagonist, a narrator guides us through...

A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration...

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing...

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

What do you see when you see a black screen?

Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish...

A group of musicians seem isolated from the world playing beautiful pieces. But in the darkness of the night, and from their minds, there are...

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in...