Essay Film Movies

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...

A girl mixes fiction with reality while writing a letter to her grandmother.

In the fourth and final instalment of Karel Vachek’s not-so-little Little Capitalist Tetralogy, preparations for an opera performance in the...

The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

What do you see when you see a black screen?

The world’s museums are closed. What are you missing?  Take a real-time walk through the Louvre towards the “greatest painting...

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

A group of musicians seem isolated from the world playing beautiful pieces. But in the darkness of the night, and from their minds, there are...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

Through his own photographs, the Basque artist Néstor Basterretxea (1924-2014) is portrayed by the art critic and exhibition curator Peio...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

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

She is defined; from birth on. The role she has to play, who she is and what she is made of is not determined by her. If one’s own body and...

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

Feeling lost, a holidayer takes a vacation, only to discover a world that is as banal as it is hyper-real. A found-footage essay film. A home-movie....