Essay Film Movies

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

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 Poe’s story.

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern perimeter...

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

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008),about a rebel who becomes pr...

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

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

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

After the disappearance of Aldemar his wife decided to get overall uncertainty by including him in the list of deaths in the 1938 Colombian National C...

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and ot...

In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the Goe...

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human an...

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent but...

A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.

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....

While Trevor and Sam are smoking pot, Trevor’s mom comes home. When she finds out, Trevor reveals his father’s adulterous ways and destroys his family...

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