Essay Film Movies

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie from th...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008),about a rebel who becomes pr...

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present, reflecting...

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

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

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

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present),from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired...

Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a trea...

The world’s museums are closed. What are you missing?  Take a real-time walk through the Louvre towards the “greatest painting ever” and contemplate...

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

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-mad...

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand Prize at the I...

After the disappearance of Aldemar his wife decided to get overall uncertainty by including him in the list of deaths in the 1938 Colombian National C...

Humankind has always dreamt of the night sky. Of the infinite freedom offered by the black void, and of the strong, shining beacon inviting us to asce...

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less c...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema,...