Essay Film Movies

The images from the landing of the first expedition of the spaceship Columbia are juxtaposed to a reflection on the function of the visual medium,...

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...

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

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...

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises,...

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

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...

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,...

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their...

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

Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor...

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant and thought-provoking investigation of the nature and experience of time,...

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:...