Essay Film Movies

A rose is a rose by any other name would be, well, something different, particularly if the rose was a woman. This tape is a witty and thoughtful...

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

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

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

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

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

Ante Meridiem is a sensory journey through the first hours of dawn. Kind but vehement, he explores the dichotomy between silence and bustle, patience...

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

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...

A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in...

Amid the chaos of existence, where warmth entwines with cold, passion ignites a fire that both liberates and consumes. Lust whispers sweet nothings,...

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 l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, 81.92 is a structuralist inquiry...

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

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

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