Essay Film Movies

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

After the disappearance of Aldemar his wife decided to get overall uncertainty by including him in the list of deaths in the 1938 Colombian National...

An essay about films about flying.

It has been a lifelong dream of Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev to create an elaborate film version of the Kyrgyz national epic 'Manas'. He spent...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

Feeling lost, a holidayer takes a vacation, only to discover a world that is as banal as it is hyper-real. A found-footage essay film. A home-movie....

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as...

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was...

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a...

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

On April 1st, 2022, my grandfather passed away and i felt lost. I think my path changed when, some days after he passed away, i was offered a small...

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

A witty, forthright dive into the wonderful world of boobs by singer and filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey - from enhanced boobs to 'free the nipple', bras,...

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and...

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.

In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror...

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...

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory