Essay Film Movies

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

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in...

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

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been...

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...

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and...

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have...

In the fourth and final instalment of Karel Vachek’s not-so-little Little Capitalist Tetralogy, preparations for an opera performance in the...

A hole gapes in a house wall. A small flaw, something imperfect that we seldom consciously direct our attention to. Filmmaker Ondřej...

A written testimony by co-director Jin Ryoo on his experience preparing for Korean compulsory military service is juxtaposed with images of an empty...

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

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

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

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

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...