Essay Film Movies

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

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

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

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and...

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

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...

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema,...

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as...

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

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

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

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

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

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

Humankind has always dreamt of the night sky. Of the infinite freedom offered by the black void, and of the strong, shining beacon inviting us to...

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban...