Poison for the Fairies - Video Essay

Video essay with genre film scholar Valeria Villegas.

Ashes, An Essay on Fire

Gerês, Portugal. Days are born with fire and die with it. Men renew the earth with ancient practices. All beings inhabit the same place.

Essay for a Surveillance Video

The film shows images captured through a window at the same time that, in the background, the filmmaker talks to a friend who was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital.

Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

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

Essay on Conflict

Essay über ein Fischweib oder Min Herzing

The last day of work for a 72-year-old fisherwoman and fish seller from Warnemünde. Amid congratulatory gestures and toastes, she tells her life story.

What Makes a Video Essay Great?

The video essay is expanding our notions of film criticism and appreciation. But do these essays offer a key to let us out—or lock us in?

Essay: Where the true colors sleep

A couple spends most of their time talking about their past and their dreams. During this time, they are constantly monitored and analyzed by voices, bodies, and external devices.

An Essay on a Free Topic

SOULSTEAL's essay

Essay on color and its absence

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

Martha & Haroldo: An Essay on Living

A sensitive study on human relationships and the passage of time. Through the lens of directing and editing, the film observes the nuances of daily life and the resilience of connections.

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy

In 1964, National Educational Television decided to make a program as a memorial to President Kennedy. Since he had been assassinated just a year before, it seemed unnecessary to recite the events of his death again. Exe

Passing Girl, Riverside: an Essay on Camera Work

By Kwame Braun. Color, 24 mins, 1998. From distributor Documentary Educational Resources: At a street festival in West Africa, a young girl is delighted to discover a video camera trained on her. But her exuberant disp

Memory is Far Away: A Non-Essay

A fractured recollection of a traumatic childhood memory.

BOYNEXTDOOR (보이넥스트도어) [HOME] Film Essay: Finding HOME

Boynextdoor film essay: finding home

Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing, and aestheticized details, the director demonstrates his admiration f

Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware, searching form of cinema through both video and text.

Meg's Jaw - A film essay

This is Meg. She has TMJ and not a lot of time to work on it.

Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 16-17 Aug 2017: A Photo Essay

Following the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally, parallel counterprotests, and the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12 August 2017, residents of Norfolk, Virginia gather in order to demand