Essay Film Movies
- 2013
Fragments of the House of Usher
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A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Roger Corman’s adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in relation to...
- 2015
Elemental
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40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.
- 2020
The Imperial Lullaby
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The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...
- 2021
Um Documentário Brasileiro
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- 2013
Fata Morgana
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Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the...
- 2022
Ante Meridiem
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Ante Meridiem is a sensory journey through the first hours of dawn. Kind but vehement, he explores the dichotomy between silence and bustle, patience...
- 2024
Sinergia
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It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...
- 2012
Revolutions Per Second
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A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.
- 2019
A Film Inspired by Real Events
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Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.
- 2010
Michael Berger: A Hysteria
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Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual systematic contexts and historical...
- 2023
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
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A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...
- 2017
#movieofmylife
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Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.
- 2020
Jetzt hier, nirgends
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A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.
- 2024
Taube Feuer
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With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....
- 2019
Last Year at Marienbad A-Z
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Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet
- 2016
Treblinka
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Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the...
- 2022
Mediocre
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- 2016
Ego
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After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The...
- 2024
Donosti 2730
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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,...
- 2014
The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness
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By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is...