Essay Film Movies

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

An essay about films about flying.

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

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...

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

We get up, go to work, eat and go to bed. Is our life about daily rituals or is there a deeper, more inscrutable meaning of life? Kjeld lives...

Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poignant analogy between the phases of their...

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the...

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...

A film about the city-scape as a diary or essay.

After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The...

Artists Nathalie Gabrielsson and Peter Sköld uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the...

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...