Essay Film Movies

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in...

This film essay is inspired by Leonid Trauberg's eponymous autobiographical text. It also sheds light on his public condemnation in 1949 as a leader...

In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the...

In an open letter to the most influential modern Indian political leader, the Late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the filmmaker sequentially narrates...

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

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

What do you see when you see a black screen?

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The...

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...

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...

A visual essay shot entirely on a Nintendo 3DS

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

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

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

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

In home-movies shot in the ‘90s by her father, the filmmaker discovers in these inherited images powerful fictions of the Argentinian middle...

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

The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.