Essay Film Movies

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

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

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir,...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their...

"No Refunds" is a visceral, tangled descent into the transactional dynamics of intimate encounters, told through the language of bodies, sheets, and...

An essay about films about flying.

Standing before a decaying state hospital in the Aegean coastal town of Foça, "The Department of Ownerless Places" investigates the...

The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poignant analogy between the phases of their...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

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...

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves. What begins...

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.

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.