Essay Film Movies

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their...

A videographic fantasia on the films of Alfred Hitchcock that quickly veers into controlled insanity. Through fervor and mania, this unconventional...

Originally produced anonymously and distributed by RTMark, Untitled #29.95 tells the story of the commercial art establishment's attempt to turn...

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

EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke...

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 variety of storefront mannequins look at, contemplate on, and talk about public space.

A woman goes on a strange journey through the woods; Bookended by two dreams.

An essay about films about flying.

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

A rose is a rose by any other name would be, well, something different, particularly if the rose was a woman. This tape is a witty and thoughtful...

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination:...

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The...

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

Amid the chaos of existence, where warmth entwines with cold, passion ignites a fire that both liberates and consumes. Lust whispers sweet nothings,...

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

A short visual essay on collections, family, and life in general.