Video Essay Movies

2020
Last Year in Dachau
Last Year in Dachau
42020HD
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....
2023
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...
1970
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...
2013
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...
2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
22020HD
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...
1970
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
01970HD
2018
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...
2021
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...
2024
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...
2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
1.52023HD
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
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.
2023
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...
1970
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...
2024
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...
2024
RESET
RESET
02024HD
Commissioned for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) exhibition The Future & Other Fictions, this essayistic collage work explores the...
2022
HIPERTEXTO
HIPERTEXTO
102022HD
2024
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...
2024
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
92024HD
A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre.
2024
A Brief History of Circles
A Brief History of Circles
02024HD
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
2022
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).