Essay Film Movies

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument...

What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is,...

A hole gapes in a house wall. A small flaw, something imperfect that we seldom consciously direct our attention to. Filmmaker Ondřej...

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,...

In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re­-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In...

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have...

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery by the novelist's husband (director Jean-Pierre...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

A diary of memory and the gradual disappearance of the self through a digital collective journey.

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in...

Timothy Connor died during a spring break weekend in 1967, the victim of a car accident. 56 years later, his soul finally arrives at the pier....

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...

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

Pole, who are you? This film collage that combines archival and contemporary materials, documentary and staged pictures, press reports, social...

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their...

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how...

Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii with the extravagant intention of recording psychophonies, supernatural echoes of the...

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...