Essay Film Movies

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...

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

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

This experimental Western horror film set in the Moravian region of Slovácko offers a new take on the legend of Saint Wenceslas. Against the...

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

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

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...

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

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

Framed within the genre of "essay film", and with the landscape of Mar de Cobo as its central core, the film explores the limits between documentary...

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

Technological advances and cultural development have disrupted the balance between humankind and other animals. Instead of looking at similarities,...

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

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

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

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

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

Standing before a decaying state hospital in the Aegean coastal town of Foça, "The Department of Ownerless Places" investigates the...

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