Essay Film Movies

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

What do you see when you see a black screen?

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...

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people...

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

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...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal novel, Castle to Castle, published in 1957....

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human...

Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of...

The film shows the behind-the-scenes process of making a documentary about an author known for their autofiction stories. By including its own...

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...

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The...

In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the...

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according...