Essay Film Movies

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

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic...

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...

"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists...

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs,...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Equal parts documentary, visual essay, experimental collage narrative, and parodic homage to and of all things Barbie, this caustic and exciting...

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...

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

I am grateful to the Chinese for the invention of gunpowder — it feels as if they made it for me. Its discovery happened by accident,...

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

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to...

A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an...

The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of...

This singular 6-part essay film on the history of the state of Rhode Island illustrates the adage that the universal is best reached via the...

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