Essay Film Movies

  • 1970
    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

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    His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at...

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait
  • 2026
    Tropical Fractals

    Tropical Fractals

    Tropical Fractals

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    On an interstellar journey, a group of scientists studies the last living vestiges of Earth. The artificial intelligence, Museo, becomes a portal to...

    Tropical Fractals
  • 2019
    Morena

    Morena

    Morena

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    Morena
  • 2004
    Visions of Europe

    Visions of Europe

    Visions of Europe

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    Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

    Visions of Europe
  • 2011
    Dust of America

    Dust of America

    Dust of America

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    A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent...

    Dust of America
  • 2018
    Fake Fiction

    Fake Fiction

    Fake Fiction

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    Fake Fiction was initially a play that was turned into a film produced by Theater Basel in 2017. Filip Markiewicz wrote the dialogues in connection...

    Fake Fiction
  • 1968
    O malém světě

    O malém světě

    O malém světě

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    O malém světě
  • 2000
    Zaniklý svět Karla Pecky

    Zaniklý svět Karla Pecky

    Zaniklý svět Karla Pecky

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    Zaniklý svět Karla Pecky
  • 2021
    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

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    A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.

    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film
  • 2013
    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

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    A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was...

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James
  • 2016
    Apple Pie

    Apple Pie

    Apple Pie

    22016HD

    Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

    Apple Pie
  • 2024
    The Water Map

    The Water Map

    The Water Map

    5.22024HD

    The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of...

    The Water Map
  • 1970
    The Hag

    The Hag

    The Hag

    01970HD

    An innocent essay in a college-creative writing class sets off a terrifying and deadly chain of events. Will they be able to stop her, or will she...

    The Hag
  • 2002
    Nonstop

    Nonstop

    Nonstop

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    Nonstop
  • 2024
    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

    02024HD

    Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom
  • 1965
    October in Madrid

    October in Madrid

    October in Madrid

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    Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the...

    October in Madrid
  • 2025
    The Making of Michel Petite

    The Making of Michel Petite

    The Making of Michel Petite

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    The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

    The Making of Michel Petite
  • 1985
    Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

    5.7861985HD

    The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

    Hands Up!
  • 2013
    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

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    This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks
  • 2020
    The Imperial Lullaby

    The Imperial Lullaby

    The Imperial Lullaby

    5.32020HD

    The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

    The Imperial Lullaby