Video Essay Movies

  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

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    A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

    Rope’s End
  • 2020
    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    2.52020HD

    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
  • 1970
    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

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    A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness...

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick
  • 1998
    Money, a Mythology of Darkness

    Money, a Mythology of Darkness

    Money, a Mythology of Darkness

    01998HD

    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
  • 2024
    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    02024HD

    Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...

    A Weak & Panicked Animal
  • 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)

    01970HD

    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)
  • 2024
    RESET

    RESET

    RESET

    02024HD

    Commissioned for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) exhibition The Future & Other Fictions, this essayistic collage work explores the...

    RESET
  • 1970
    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    01970HD

    The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who...

    The Present Situation
  • 2022
    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    02022HD

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

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee
  • 2023
    Rat Race: A Short Documentary

    Rat Race: A Short Documentary

    Rat Race: A Short Documentary

    02023HD

    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
  • 2024
    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    02024HD

    A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens
  • 2024
    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    92024HD

    A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre.

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
  • 2025
    Food and Music

    Food and Music

    Food and Music

    02025HD

    floating images, abstractions, memories. silhouettes of a life lived in Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Food and Music
  • 2024
    Burnout

    Burnout

    Burnout

    02024HD

    Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship with fire - tracing its journey from control and...

    Burnout
  • 2010
    Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay

    Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay

    Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay

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    How do we think about animals? Or rather – how do our animal companions think? How can we imagine the lives of our (non-human) animal friends?...

    Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    02024HD

    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube