Essay Film Movies

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

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

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

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

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by...

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,...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

"In ancient China the tiger skin represented 'continuous change'. In the Maya’s world, Bolom Chon’s (jaguar) hide, allowed the...

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant and thought-provoking investigation of the nature and experience of time,...

A film essay in which multiple female characters, drawn from different films, slowly overlap and connect through a shared state of melancholy.

The reflection of the first visions experienced by a young experimental film director after death. A film centered on understanding death itself as...

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...

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....

Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish...

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...