Essay Film Movies

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us –...

A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

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

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema,...

What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is,...

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

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art...

Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual systematic contexts and historical...

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

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

1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack...

A written testimony by co-director Jin Ryoo on his experience preparing for Korean compulsory military service is juxtaposed with images of an empty...

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...