Essay Film Movies

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

"A l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, 81.92 is a structuralist inquiry...

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible.

What do you see when you see a black screen?

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a...

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

Within photographs that are not their own, a body discovers it has always been part of another.

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

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

The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college...

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political...

A rose is a rose by any other name would be, well, something different, particularly if the rose was a woman. This tape is a witty and thoughtful...

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

A short visual essay on collections, family, and life in general.

For a long time they were an integral part of our society, today they live neglected in our cities and are deemed a problem. The pigeon is a relic of...