The Rashomon Effect

A video essay by critic Rachael Nisbet on the unorthodox narrative structure of Mario Bava's 'Four Times That Night'.

Balanchine Essays - The Barre

Toward the latter part of his life, George Balanchine talked about creating a "dictionary" of his technique, a visual reference for the students of ballet. The George Balanchine Foundation has helped to fulfill his wish

Visual Essays: Origins of Film

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, the

Essays On Insects

This animated film is comprised of five themes chosen from Tezuka Osamu's collection of essays "Essay in Idleness of Insects" in which he had compiled studies on insects. Although this collection contains mainly academic

Composting Cinema: Essays on the Soil

The Glass Essays

Unable to sleep, a young man is lured into the woods by a mysterious sound. He follows it across a river, through forest and shadows, until he finally comes upon the red curtains of a travelling funeral performance stage

Mademoiselle Varesca, de la Comédie Marigny, fait des essayages chez le fourreur Henri Vergne

Essays in Idleness

“Essays in Idleness” is a reimagining of the ‘Tsurezuregusa’, a classic 14th-century text by Zen monk and poet Yoshida Kenko who wrote 243 short entries on the aesthetic beauty of nature, social rules, Zen Buddhism, and

The Shadow Scholars

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemplo

Ensaio Sobre Você

Notes on the Popular Arts

An exploration of American escapism through dream sequences.

Ensaio Sobre Minha Mãe

Composition Class

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic

The Mystery of the King of Kinema

In 1914, Max Linder (1883-1925) was a great star of silent cinema, the King of Cinema. But then World War I broke out, in which Max participated, and the whole world, and his life in particular, was changed forever. His

Cannabis - Probieren geht über Regieren

Being a politician is a tough job. Federal Councillor Alois Mumenthaler knows this too and makes his way through the sessions as a grumpy and old-fashioned representative of the species. He is pretty much against everyth

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Sketches of a Soviet City

A city symphony about Kharkiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s.