Essay Film Movies

In home-movies shot in the ‘90s by her father, the filmmaker discovers in these inherited images powerful fictions of the Argentinian middle...

Chronicles of a male homosexual drug addict in 1980's in voice-over with long take scenes from Rome, television snippets of news of Gulf War and...

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...

Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal novel, Castle to Castle, published in 1957....

This singular 6-part essay film on the history of the state of Rhode Island illustrates the adage that the universal is best reached via the...

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

We get up, go to work, eat and go to bed. Is our life about daily rituals or is there a deeper, more inscrutable meaning of life? Kjeld lives...

Blurred footage of a plane and fading overlays of the San Diego landscape intertwine with the writer's journey as he writes Lament I in the moment...

In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its...

An essay-film about images and politicians.

Partly a parody, partly a mockumentary, partly an essay film - and also an actual behind the scenes documentary of two short films.

"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...

The author's personal confession. This essay film about the relationship between father and son is filmed exclusively in 16mm film in Prague,...

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire...

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at...