Essay Film Movies

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

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.

A mythic narrative inspired by the common threads of Arnold Schwarzenegger's filmography and biographical trajectory.

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

An essay film about... things that don't make sense. Or maybe they do, I don't know. You tell me.

Benjamín trips to the south of Chile with his family and shots a visual letter to deceased filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a...

A critical animated essay on the current global state of society. Among other things, it deals with neoliberalism and the need for endless growth.

The images from the landing of the first expedition of the spaceship Columbia are juxtaposed to a reflection on the function of the visual medium,...

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...

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

Framed within the genre of "essay film", and with the landscape of Mar de Cobo as its central core, the film explores the limits between documentary...

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according...

Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. She is the other gaze is a collaboration with five female visual artists...

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...

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.