Movies: Essay film

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

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too, which is when 9‑year‑old Tom and his friends play hide‑and‑seek or attack each other with a drone. Then there are...

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir, a book she loved when she was young....

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States...

Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish implied by its recovery. The author's approach to his twelve-year-old self is articulated through a mosaic ...

A film about the city-scape as a diary or essay....

"In ancient China the tiger skin represented 'continuous change'. In the Maya’s world, Bolom Chon’s (jaguar) hide, allowed the constellations to be read: the cosmos’ dance." Ж In 7FF on¢idia Rio de Janeiro FIFA World Cup mascot Fuleco becomes a cip...

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

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White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the themes of material and metaphysical loss and grief, the poetic discourse calls for hope through respec...

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet about the debut of Monsieur Hulot...

Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA Documentary Film Festival)...

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told from the perspective of a wandering narrator, who has arrived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by accident, th...

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This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s life....

Chris Gallagher’s feature-length film essay Time Being is an elegant and thought-provoking investigation of the nature and experience of time, and its filmic representation. 88 one-minute shots or shot-sequences counterpoint a spoken commentary that ...

Artists Nathalie Gabrielsson and Peter Sköld uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the 1970s. The campaign is unique in the world in its strategic structure and extensive scope. All the problems ...

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