Essay Film Movies

Actor / director Aoki-Asta Konieczny attempts to get funding for her stage adaption of the seminal 1949 Polish science fiction film "In The Slit Throa...

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...

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

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

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 Poe’s story.

An essay about films about flying.

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title (published in 1990)...

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 t...

Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to captu...

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

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

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 looking....

She is defined; from birth on. The role she has to play, who she is and what she is made of is not determined by her. If one’s own body and gender are...

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 adaptati...

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 loved a...

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

Through his own photographs, the Basque artist Néstor Basterretxea (1924-2014) is portrayed by the art critic and exhibition curator Peio Aguirre, a g...