Essay Film Movies

  • 2022
    Äskhult - The Eternal Place

    Äskhult - The Eternal Place

    Äskhult - The Eternal Place

    02022HD

    In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past...

    Äskhult - The Eternal Place
  • 2002
    My Korean Cinema

    My Korean Cinema

    My Korean Cinema

    82002HD

    A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean...

    My Korean Cinema
  • 2023
    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    02023HD

    “Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

    Leda + Swans
  • 2021
    Personal Life of a Hole

    Personal Life of a Hole

    Personal Life of a Hole

    02021HD

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

    Personal Life of a Hole
  • 2017
    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)

    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)

    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)

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    EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke...

    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)
  • 2019
    Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños

    Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños

    Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños

    02019HD

    Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños
  • 2018
    She Is the Other Gaze

    She Is the Other Gaze

    She Is the Other Gaze

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    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...

    She Is the Other Gaze
  • 2020
    Asuka Attacks Herself

    Asuka Attacks Herself

    Asuka Attacks Herself

    02020HD

    A psychological exploration of the mind of the young Evangelion pilot Asuka.

    Asuka Attacks Herself
  • 2015
    Morava, krásná zem

    Morava, krásná zem

    Morava, krásná zem

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    Morava, krásná zem
  • 2019
    Death of Narcissus

    Death of Narcissus

    Death of Narcissus

    02019HD

    Death of Narcissus
  • 2014
    Las Vegas Meditation

    Las Vegas Meditation

    Las Vegas Meditation

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    Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA...

    Las Vegas Meditation
  • 1970
    The Swedish Troll Factory

    The Swedish Troll Factory

    The Swedish Troll Factory

    01970HD

    Artists Nathalie Gabrielsson and Peter Sköld uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the...

    The Swedish Troll Factory
  • 2020
    The Drone Is The Message

    The Drone Is The Message

    The Drone Is The Message

    82020HD

    The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

    The Drone Is The Message
  • 1972
    Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on Earth

    Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on Earth

    Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on Earth

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    Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by...

    Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on Earth
  • 2003
    Celestial Night: a film on visibility

    Celestial Night: a film on visibility

    Celestial Night: a film on visibility

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    Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination:...

    Celestial Night: a film on visibility
  • 2013
    James Bearden: Man of Metals

    James Bearden: Man of Metals

    James Bearden: Man of Metals

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    An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

    James Bearden: Man of Metals
  • 2019
    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    02019HD

    The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title...

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology
  • 2016
    Letters from Panduranga

    Letters from Panduranga

    Letters from Panduranga

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    In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the...

    Letters from Panduranga
  • 1970
    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    01970HD

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

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait
  • 2021
    Electric Eye

    Electric Eye

    Electric Eye

    02021HD

    An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an...

    Electric Eye