Essay Film Movies

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

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

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

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

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 dog's funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a...

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

A psychological exploration of the mind of the young Evangelion pilot Asuka.

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...

The images from the landing of the first expedition of the spaceship Columbia are juxtaposed to a reflection on the function of the visual medium,...