Essay Film Movies

A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography.

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises,...

A girl mixes fiction with reality while writing a letter to her grandmother.

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination:...

A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of ordinary movements from the everyday which appear, evolve and freeze...

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

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

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

The times are fueled by anxiety, and our tweets will not say the opposite. A feeling of the end of the world hangs over our economic model. The...

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

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.

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 meditative essay.

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand...