Essay Film Movies

This Pixar documentary short follows Sarah Vowell, who plays herself as the title character, on why she is a superhero in her own way. (This short...

Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of...

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...

This J.G. Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and...

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

"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...

Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s...

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

Experimental documentary dissecting artistic inspiration through raw imagery and collage, aiming to answer a defining question for artists: What to...

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...

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...

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

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

The world’s museums are closed. What are you missing?  Take a real-time walk through the Louvre towards the “greatest painting...

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by...

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

The reflection of the first visions experienced by a young experimental film director after death. A film centered on understanding death itself as...

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text...