Essay Film Movies

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

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,...

A meditative essay.

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

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

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:...

A dog's funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a...

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

A psychological exploration of the mind of the young Evangelion pilot Asuka.

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...