Tag: essay film

EMPATHY (a digital love letter)

EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary,...

We Love Me

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images...

Debra Paget, For Example

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights...

To Stay Alive: A Method

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary...

Apple Pie

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and...

Letters to a Father

The author's personal confession. This essay film about the relationship...

Tati vs. Bresson: The Gag

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet...

White Noise

White Noise explores the links between people and their land,...

Blin Cat

A video essay about a conversation the director had with...

Fear Itself

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a...

Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema

Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay...

Genoveva

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting...

Elemental

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for...

Vila do Conde Extended

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter...

Morava, krásná zem

My Life Without Steve

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room...

Long Live Hunting!

Criterion Designs

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of...

The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness

By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes...

32+4

The director spent her childhood living apart from her family...

Ensaio Sobre Minha Mãe

Valtos

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in...

Wates House

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon...

Clear Skies, Light Breeze

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by...