Essay Film Movies

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic...

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,...

An innocent essay in a college-creative writing class sets off a terrifying and deadly chain of events. Will they be able to stop her, or will she...

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural...

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.

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of...

The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

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

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

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

A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.

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

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...

In the meadow, the boundaries between reality and fiction become almost imperceptible. "Pradera" is a photo essay that explores the themes 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...

This documentary essay introduces a peculiar trio of men united by their passion for hunting. Each of them conceives of hunting in his own way,...

Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman...