Essay Film Movies

  • 2019
    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE

    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE

    The FRUSTRATION of SENSE

    02019HD

    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 FRUSTRATION of SENSE
  • 1998
    Borges: A Life in Poetry

    Borges: A Life in Poetry

    Borges: A Life in Poetry

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    A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando...

    Borges: A Life in Poetry
  • 2025
    What to Film?

    What to Film?

    What to Film?

    02025HD

    Experimental documentary dissecting artistic inspiration through raw imagery and collage, aiming to answer a defining question for artists: What to...

    What to Film?
  • 1986
    Essay

    Essay

    Essay

    5.51986HD

    A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

    Essay
  • 2020
    40 Days to Learn Film

    40 Days to Learn Film

    40 Days to Learn Film

    52020HD

    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...

    40 Days to Learn Film
  • 2026
    Cinematic Melancholy

    Cinematic Melancholy

    Cinematic Melancholy

    02026HD

    A film essay in which multiple female characters, drawn from different films, slowly overlap and connect through a shared state of melancholy.

    Cinematic Melancholy
  • 1995
    Desolate Rome

    Desolate Rome

    Desolate Rome

    4.21995HD

    Chronicles of a male homosexual drug addict in 1980's in voice-over with long take scenes from Rome, television snippets of news of Gulf War and...

    Desolate Rome
  • 2020
    Papers

    Papers

    Papers

    02020HD

    Jim, a slacker college student, decides to procrastinate on an essay worth 25% of his grade. Will he finish in time, or suffer the consequences?

    Papers
  • 2021
    The Cooking Show

    The Cooking Show

    The Cooking Show

    02021HD

    The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat?...

    The Cooking Show
  • 2019
    Filmfarsi

    Filmfarsi

    Filmfarsi

    22019HD

    A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

    Filmfarsi
  • 1988
    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

    7.11988HD

    "Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he...

    Land of Dreams
  • 1970
    Aspergian Oblivion

    Aspergian Oblivion

    Aspergian Oblivion

    01970HD

    A cinematic essay by Sean Kelly about his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome.

    Aspergian Oblivion
  • 1965
    Do You Hear Me?

    Do You Hear Me?

    Do You Hear Me?

    91965HD

    A meditative essay.

    Do You Hear Me?
  • 1984
    Circuits of the Gaze

    Circuits of the Gaze

    Circuits of the Gaze

    01984HD

    Essay that proposes to analyze the trajectory of knowledge about delinquency in the 19th and 20th centuries, the collaboration of medicine in the...

    Circuits of the Gaze
  • 2019
    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    02019HD

    The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title...

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology
  • 2022
    Äskhult - The Eternal Place

    Äskhult - The Eternal Place

    Äskhult - The Eternal Place

    02022HD

    In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past...

    Äskhult - The Eternal Place
  • 2021
    You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa

    You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa

    You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa

    02021HD

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

    You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa
  • 2000
    Bitva o život

    Bitva o život

    Bitva o život

    82000HD

    A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year...

    Bitva o život
  • 2022
    Cinema Now

    Cinema Now

    Cinema Now

    22022HD

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

    Cinema Now
  • 2026
    On the Sea

    On the Sea

    On the Sea

    02026HD

    A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

    On the Sea