Essay Film Movies

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

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

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

An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their...

"In ancient China the tiger skin represented 'continuous change'. In the Maya’s world, Bolom Chon’s (jaguar) hide, allowed the...

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

In this experimental documentary, a transgender woman reflects on being harassed by a stranger.

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

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life.

The times are fueled by anxiety, and our tweets will not say the opposite. A feeling of the end of the world hangs over our economic model. The...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

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

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...

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

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...

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.