Video Essay Movies

  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    102024HD

    "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

    Daedalus
  • 2024
    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    02024HD

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

    A Weak & Panicked Animal
  • 2018
    Wild Plants of Palestine

    Wild Plants of Palestine

    Wild Plants of Palestine

    02018HD

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

    Wild Plants of Palestine
  • 2021
    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    2.52021HD

    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...

    Love in the Time of Corona
  • 1970
    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    01970HD

    A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's three students from the Superior School of Arts and...

    Sankofa
  • 2022
    HIPERTEXTO

    HIPERTEXTO

    HIPERTEXTO

    102022HD

    HIPERTEXTO
  • 2013
    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    02013HD

    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...

    Functions of Film Sound
  • 2023
    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    02023HD

    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...

    CARA-B
  • 2022
    Lullaby of Ukraine

    Lullaby of Ukraine

    Lullaby of Ukraine

    02022HD

    Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion...Let everyone ask themselves and the leaders of their countries: what...

    Lullaby of Ukraine
  • 2024
    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    02024HD

    Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who...

    Letter to My Tribe
  • 2023
    Swimming, Dancing

    Swimming, Dancing

    Swimming, Dancing

    02023HD

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

    Swimming, Dancing
  • 1970
    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    01970HD

    The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who...

    The Present Situation
  • 2024
    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    02024HD

    A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens
  • 1970
    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    01970HD

    YouTuber Jeffiot goes digging for the origins of skull trumpet / doot doot / mr skeltal, and ends up taking a trip to the early web heyday of...

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)
  • 2022
    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    02022HD

    A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration...

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee
  • 2023
    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    02023HD

    Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student...

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary
  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    1.52022HD

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

    Rope’s End
  • 2024
    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

    02024HD

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

    A Brief History of Circles
  • 2023
    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    02023HD

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

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
  • 1970
    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    01970HD

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

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick