Essay Film Movies

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political...

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich...

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the...

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

A scientific expedition travels to an alternative Earth in hope of finding a new home for humanity, which has destroyed its own planet. But is it...

1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack...

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was...

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the...

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all.

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...