Essay Film Filmes

  • 2022
    Cinema Now

    Cinema Now

    Cinema Now

    22022HD

    A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

    Cinema Now
  • 2023
    Lynch/Oz

    Lynch/Oz

    Lynch/Oz

    6.8792023HD

    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...

    Lynch/Oz
  • 2017
    Arcadia

    Arcadia

    Arcadia

    7.12017HD

    A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

    Arcadia
  • 2022
    The March on Rome

    The March on Rome

    The March on Rome

    6.52022HD

    The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire...

    The March on Rome
  • 2020
    Papers

    Papers

    Papers

    02020HD

    Jim, a slacker college student, decides to procrastinate on an essay worth 25% of his grade. Will he finish in time, or suffer the consequences?

    Papers
  • 2021
    On Memory

    On Memory

    On Memory

    7.82021HD

    Musing on the nature of memory, Don Hertzfeldt recounts stories about a kiss from The King, a floating child in a backyard and a giant foot.

    On Memory
  • 1972
    Vampir Cuadecuc

    Vampir Cuadecuc

    Vampir Cuadecuc

    6.0531972HD

    An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

    Vampir Cuadecuc
  • 2015
    Genoveva

    Genoveva

    Genoveva

    02015HD

    A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

    Genoveva
  • 2017
    Magnicidios Poe

    Magnicidios Poe

    Magnicidios Poe

    22017HD

    The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by...

    Magnicidios Poe
  • 2024
    The Weight of Sight

    The Weight of Sight

    The Weight of Sight

    02024HD

    The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything...

    The Weight of Sight
  • 1995
    Desolate Rome

    Desolate Rome

    Desolate Rome

    3.41995HD

    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...

    Desolate Rome
  • 1968
    Respice finem

    Respice finem

    Respice finem

    71968HD

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

    Respice finem
  • 2018
    Hard Border

    Hard Border

    Hard Border

    02018HD

    Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare...

    Hard Border
  • 2021
    Parallel Lives

    Parallel Lives

    Parallel Lives

    02021HD

    Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich...

    Parallel Lives
  • 2025
    Alternate Earth

    Alternate Earth

    Alternate Earth

    02025HD

    A scientific expedition travels to an alternative Earth in hope of finding a new home for humanity, which has destroyed its own planet. But is it...

    Alternate Earth
  • 2019
    Filmfarsi

    Filmfarsi

    Filmfarsi

    22019HD

    A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

    Filmfarsi
  • 2013
    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    32013HD

    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...

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James
  • 2005
    Darkness

    Darkness

    Darkness

    02005HD

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

    Darkness
  • 1995
    Cremaster 4

    Cremaster 4

    Cremaster 4

    5.91995HD

    CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

    Cremaster 4
  • 2004
    Visions of Europe

    Visions of Europe

    Visions of Europe

    4.92004HD

    Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

    Visions of Europe