Essay Film Movies

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the...

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

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and...

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

Produced by MUBI, The Rising of the Moon is a video essay which explores the struggle for independence as it has been portrayed throughout the...

Actor / director Aoki-Asta Konieczny attempts to get funding for her stage adaption of the seminal 1949 Polish science fiction film "In The Slit...

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

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...

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

The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The collage...

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

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

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...