Essay Film Movies

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

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

Timothy Connor died during a spring break weekend in 1967, the victim of a car accident. 56 years later, his soul finally arrives at the pier....

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

Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a...

A mythic narrative inspired by the common threads of Arnold Schwarzenegger's filmography and biographical trajectory.

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean...

The reflection of the first visions experienced by a young experimental film director after death. A film centered on understanding death itself as...

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

An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry...

The times are fueled by anxiety, and our tweets will not say the opposite. A feeling of the end of the world hangs over our economic model. The...

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration,...

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

the film centers on a group of young people from different social backgrounds, united by their addictions.

In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the...

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

"No Refunds" is a visceral, tangled descent into the transactional dynamics of intimate encounters, told through the language of bodies, sheets, and...