video essay movies

A Weak & Panicked Animal (2024)
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Horror

Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...

Rope’s End (2022)
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Documentary

A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

CARA-B (2023)
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Documentary

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023)
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Documentary

Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...

Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis (1969)
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Documentary

After James Benning's YouTube (2024)
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Documentary

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

reminiscence on the garden (2022)
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Documentary

A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that...

Last Year in Dachau (2020)
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Documentary

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....

The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey (2020)
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Documentary

Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick (1969)
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Documentary, Science Fiction, Drama

A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness...

Functions of Film Sound (2013)
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Documentary

This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...

Money, a Mythology of Darkness (1998)
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Animation, Drama, History

In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.

A Brief History of Circles (2024)
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Documentary

An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.

Wild Plants of Palestine (2018)
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Documentary

Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from...

Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (2020)
2.5 / 10

Documentary

A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna...

Martin und Hans (2022)
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Documentary

A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a...

Love in the Time of Corona (2021)
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Documentary

A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you...

The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein (2023)
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Swimming, Dancing (2023)
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Documentary

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

The Trilogy of Rhapsody - Urban (2023)
8 / 10

Documentary, Drama

This is a video essay. It is a brief analysis of the connection between the individual and the self, the individual and the changing environment, and...