Essay Film Movies

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

On an interstellar journey, a group of scientists studies the last living vestiges of Earth. The artificial intelligence, Museo, becomes a portal to...

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

An essay-film about images and politicians.

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal novel, Castle to Castle, published in 1957....

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have...

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural...

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand...

Blurred footage of a plane and fading overlays of the San Diego landscape intertwine with the writer's journey as he writes Lament I in the moment...

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people...

Chronicles of a male homosexual drug addict in 1980's in voice-over with long take scenes from Rome, television snippets of news of Gulf War and...

Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines...

An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who frequent it.

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text...