Essay Film Movies

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant and thought-provoking investigation of the nature and experience of time,...

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

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

A look into the career and impact of "classical liberal" talk show host Dave Rubin.

The Post(?) Feminist Dissonance Project uses a quote by Kathleen Hanna as a prompt, a voicemail box as an interviewing device, found footage as a...

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life.

Artists Nathalie Gabrielsson and Peter Sköld uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the...

What do you see when you see a black screen?

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware,...

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

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

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

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

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year...