Essay Film Movies
- 1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her6.31967HD
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children tak...
- 1973
F for Fake
F for Fake7.4111973HD
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his nam...
- 2013
Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana52013HD
Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the utterly monu...
- 2004
Visions of Europe
Visions of Europe4.92004HD
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
- 2005
A Way
A Way02005HD
"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is th...
- 1960
Ars
Ars5.71960HD
With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jac...
- 2017
Arcadia
Arcadia7.12017HD
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...
- 2022
The March on Rome
The March on Rome6.42022HD
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire wor...
- 2021
Nine Sevilles
Nine Sevilles52021HD
"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists of...
- 2023
Lynch/Oz
Lynch/Oz6.9092023HD
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this T...
- 2005
Darkness
Darkness02005HD
Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal novel, Castle to Castle, published in 1957. The last...
- 1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories6.11989HD
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98);...
- 1972
Vampir Cuadecuc
Vampir Cuadecuc61972HD
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction an...
- 2022
Cinema Now
Cinema Now22022HD
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.
- 2024
Exergo
Exergo02024HD
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, work...
- 2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)02000HD
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaboratin...
- 1966
La Camargue
La Camargue5.51966HD
A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.
- 1984
The So-Called Caryatids
The So-Called Caryatids6.21984HD
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buil...
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal
A Weak & Panicked Animal02024HD
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a trea...
- 1995
Cremaster 4
Cremaster 461995HD
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descensi...