Essay Film Movies

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

In this experimental documentary, a transgender woman reflects on being harassed by a stranger.

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

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

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

Everyday Maneuver is a video that presents the viewer with an unrealistic scenery. Shot from a drone, it shows a city at daytime, but there isn't a...

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

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

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...

A critical animated essay on the current global state of society. Among other things, it deals with neoliberalism and the need for endless growth.

EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke...

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

A video-letter to Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and author of the unforgivable "Art for Dummies".

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The...