Essay Film Movies

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

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

A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves. What begins...

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by...

Ante Meridiem is a sensory journey through the first hours of dawn. Kind but vehement, he explores the dichotomy between silence and bustle, patience...

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:...

A short film essay on Blue Velvet (1986) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). The fact that Blue Velvet was almost shot in black and white is...

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 film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

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

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

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...