Essay Film Movies

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

A film essay in which multiple female characters, drawn from different films, slowly overlap and connect through a shared state of melancholy.

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred...

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the...

Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of 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 witty, forthright dive into the wonderful world of boobs by singer and filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey – from enhanced boobs to 'free the nipple',...

Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare...

The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything...

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...

White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the...

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.

Korean film critic Jeong Sung-il’s camera explores the work of Wang Bing, a Chinese director who won international fame with his film Tie Xi...

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to...

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

A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration...

Brute Force explores how our knowledge-making practices affect the world. Drawing on quantum theory and geology, the film exposes the intrinsic...