Essay Movies

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Equal parts documentary, visual essay, experimental collage narrative, and parodic homage to and of all things Barbie, this caustic and exciting...

A fictional boy aims to become a non-fictional rapper. His label has other plans.

A scientific expedition travels to an alternative Earth in hope of finding a new home for humanity, which has destroyed its own planet. But is it...

Into a starry sky full of coloured spots! The propellers have been revved up. Accompanied by the drone and roar of the engine, the aircraft takes...

Amina lives with an invisible chronic illness that has imprisoned her in an exhausted body. To better understand this elusive illness, her brother...

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie...

Inspired by Georges Perec’s A Man Asleep, the film examines contemporary alienation in a today’s emotionally numbed world of...

Bounded Intimacy (part of the trilogy of Super 8mm shorts It’s Just Business, Baby) examines the histories of various forms of body labor...

The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has...

Trapped by a complicated life situation, Diego Ibañez invites you to enter his mind to witness a moment frozen in time, his worries, his...

Essay that proposes to analyze the trajectory of knowledge about delinquency in the 19th and 20th centuries, the collaboration of medicine in the...

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers,...

The filmmaker's mother describes stories of his lustful youth over the phone, causing them to reflect on his current love life at the age of 30.

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration,...

“A Reflected Story” is fragmented into five short tales that reveal the need to reflect on how our lives are sustained by the cult to...

An orphan narrates his essay “What is Family?” and how he found his answer when he met “Surfing Uncle” developing a bond like...

A college student prone to procrastination has a month to complete an important essay.