Essay Film Movies

An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry...

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

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

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

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

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

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life.

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

Artists Nathalie Gabrielsson and Peter Sköld uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the...

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

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

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:...

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware,...

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