Essay Film Movies

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...

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

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

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

Everyday Maneuver is a video that presents the viewer with an unrealistic scenery. Shot from a drone, it shows a city at daytime, but there isn't a...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

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

Equal parts documentary, visual essay, experimental collage narrative, and parodic homage to and of all things Barbie, this caustic and exciting...

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

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet about the debut of Monsieur Hulot

Experimental documentary dissecting artistic inspiration through raw imagery and collage, aiming to answer a defining question for artists: What to...

An essay about films about flying.

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...

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

For a long time they were an integral part of our society, today they live neglected in our cities and are deemed a problem. The pigeon is a relic of...

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.

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

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

A hole gapes in a house wall. A small flaw, something imperfect that we seldom consciously direct our attention to. Filmmaker Ondřej...