Essay Film Movies

  • 2018
    She Is the Other Gaze

    She Is the Other Gaze

    She Is the Other Gaze

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    Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. She is the other gaze is a collaboration with five female visual artists...

    She Is the Other Gaze
  • 2016
    From the West

    From the West

    From the West

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

    From the West
  • 2025
    AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.

    AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.

    AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.

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    Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a...

    AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.
  • 1970
    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

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    A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves. What begins...

    8 Seconds at the Three Sisters
  • 2025
    Wading through Godot

    Wading through Godot

    Wading through Godot

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    two friends sit on a park bench, considering a video adaptation of Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy on things never completed, and what it means to...

    Wading through Godot
  • 2024
    Accursed Effigy

    Accursed Effigy

    Accursed Effigy

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    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...

    Accursed Effigy
  • 2024
    Between the Sky and the Earth

    Between the Sky and the Earth

    Between the Sky and the Earth

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    Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poignant analogy between the phases of their...

    Between the Sky and the Earth
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    02024HD

    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube
  • 1996
    Neuerburg

    Neuerburg

    Neuerburg

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    A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in...

    Neuerburg
  • 2020
    The Social Cube

    The Social Cube

    The Social Cube

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    A critical animated essay on the current global state of society. Among other things, it deals with neoliberalism and the need for endless growth.

    The Social Cube
  • 2019
    Searching for the Perfect Gentleman

    Searching for the Perfect Gentleman

    Searching for the Perfect Gentleman

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

    Searching for the Perfect Gentleman
  • 2013
    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

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    This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks
  • 2024
    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    02024HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

    The Doubt According to the Archives
  • 2024
    Oh, to Be Able to Speak!

    Oh, to Be Able to Speak!

    Oh, to Be Able to Speak!

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

    Oh, to Be Able to Speak!
  • 2024
    L'Image de la culture

    L'Image de la culture

    L'Image de la culture

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    L'Image de la culture
  • 2024
    Sinergia

    Sinergia

    Sinergia

    02024HD

    It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...

    Sinergia
  • 2023
    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

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    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....

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy
  • 2014
    Wates House

    Wates House

    Wates House

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

    Wates House
  • 2020
    Hide and Seek in a Peaceful Valley

    Hide and Seek in a Peaceful Valley

    Hide and Seek in a Peaceful Valley

    02020HD

    In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too,...

    Hide and Seek in a Peaceful Valley
  • 2019
    Death of Narcissus

    Death of Narcissus

    Death of Narcissus

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    Death of Narcissus