Essay Film Movies

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an...

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

What do you see when you see a black screen?

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

The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and...

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir,...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

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

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

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

Pole, who are you? This film collage that combines archival and contemporary materials, documentary and staged pictures, press reports, social...

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

A boy writes an essay about a bad day.

For a few years, I have written notes that are addressed to my sister during the very long and stressful process of her eating disorder and anorexia...

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...

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present,...

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...