Essay Film Movies

An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry...

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

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

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

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

Within photographs that are not their own, a body discovers it has always been part of another.

Originally produced anonymously and distributed by RTMark, Untitled #29.95 tells the story of the commercial art establishment's attempt to turn...

A look into the career and impact of "classical liberal" talk show host Dave Rubin.

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

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

The Post(?) Feminist Dissonance Project uses a quote by Kathleen Hanna as a prompt, a voicemail box as an interviewing device, found footage as a...

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

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting...

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

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

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