Essay Film Movies

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

Blurred footage of a plane and fading overlays of the San Diego landscape intertwine with the writer's journey as he writes Lament I in the moment...

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

Standing before a decaying state hospital in the Aegean coastal town of Foça, "The Department of Ownerless Places" investigates the...

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

A short visual essay on collections, family, and life in general.

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing...

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

A woman goes on a strange journey through the woods; Bookended by two dreams.

Amid the chaos of existence, where warmth entwines with cold, passion ignites a fire that both liberates and consumes. Lust whispers sweet nothings,...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual...

An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their...