Essay Film Movies

A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the viewfinder is an Indian immigrant, who seeks to...

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery by the novelist's husband (director Jean-Pierre...

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

Timothy Connor died during a spring break weekend in 1967, the victim of a car accident. 56 years later, his soul finally arrives at the pier....

With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman...

Formerly incarcerated writer Marvin Wade speaks personally about his 25 years in prison and the positive transformation he achieved in spite of, not...

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

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare...

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

For a long time they were an integral part of our society, today they live neglected in our cities and are deemed a problem. The pigeon is a relic of...

A film-letter that tells the tale of an unlikely and recurring discussion about the perception of herons in the urban environment. (Un)intentionally,...

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the...

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of ordinary movements from the everyday which appear, evolve and freeze...