Essay Film Movies

An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their...

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...

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have...

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration,...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their...

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less...

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 dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent...

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

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and...

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the...

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

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...

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the...