Tag: essay film

Locations: Looking for Rusty James

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed...

Linklater: On Cinema and Time

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one...

James Bearden: Man of Metals

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles'...

Land of Dreams

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born...

All This Can Happen

A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the...

What Is Neorealism?

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian...

Fata Morgana

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy...

Fragments of the House of Usher

A video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining...

Une vie pour deux

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux...

Ôrí

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and...

Ozu: Passageways

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of...

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective

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

I skuggan

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two...

The Last Dream of Anatoly Vasilievich

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of...

Dust of America

A dream walk through the United States of America; a...

Diario ruso

Michael Berger: A Hysteria

Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic...

How to Write an Autobiogaphy

This video will teach you how to write your own...

Pornografia

An essay-film about images and politicians.

Visit, or Memories and Confessions

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by...

Agit-Prop

A documentary about the life and work of poet and...

City of Signs

Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii...

Time Being

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant...

The Mermaids

A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization...