Essay Film Movies

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have...

A meditative essay.

Feeling lost, a holidayer takes a vacation, only to discover a world that is as banal as it is hyper-real. A found-footage essay film. A home-movie....

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument...

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college...

"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who...

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and...

A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to...

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery by the novelist's husband (director Jean-Pierre...

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object,...

Amid the chaos of existence, where warmth entwines with cold, passion ignites a fire that both liberates and consumes. Lust whispers sweet nothings,...

A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.