Essay Film Movies

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at...

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...

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to...

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination:...

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

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

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have...

Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA...

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...

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

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

Emotional Landscapes explores memory though narrative elements of fiction and essay components. Without protagonist, a narrator guides us through...

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

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

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred...