Essay Film Movies

Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to...

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...

Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA...

the film centers on a group of young people from different social backgrounds, united by their addictions.

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

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

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...

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

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...

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...

Blurred footage of a plane and fading overlays of the San Diego landscape intertwine with the writer's journey as he writes Lament I in the moment...

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination:...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the...

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

A short visual essay on collections, family, and life in general.

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