Essay Film Filmes

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...

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

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

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.

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...

What do you see when you see a black screen?

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....

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

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

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

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

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing...

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

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