Essay Film Movies

An essay about films about flying.

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too,...

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a...

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

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

The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college...

A young man returns to Morocco after a decade of living in Germany. In the form of a letter to his mother, he reflects on his journey. Filmed with...

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

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...

Jaiden van Bork examines both the mythology and reality of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, seeking to unravel the difficult questions that face the coastal...

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Standing before a decaying state hospital in the Aegean coastal town of Foça, "The Department of Ownerless Places" investigates the...

A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves. What begins...

A woman goes on a strange journey through the woods; Bookended by two dreams.

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

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...