Essay Film Movies

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

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA...

Weeping Rocks follows Art, an entomologist nearing the end of his life, who has spent over five decades walking the same ten trails, meticulously...

A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves. What begins...

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

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

A psychological exploration of the mind of the young Evangelion pilot Asuka.

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...

A film essay loosely based on LIMITE (1931) and TRICÔ E PITANGAS (2011), shot during film production classes.

A short film essay on Blue Velvet (1986) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). The fact that Blue Velvet was almost shot in black and white is...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir,...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...