Self-portrait nº1 (Toilette)

One of my very first films, for which I hold the camera at arm's length and thereby capture fragmentary and very close images of myself washing my face or combing my hair; all interspersed with photos at different ages.

Self-Portrait 1

A woman dissolves

Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter

Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a "proper", bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close frie

Self-Portrait at Thirty

The director paints a self-portrait while feeling sad, using the modern paintbrush of TikTok face masks.

Self-portrait 2020

Director Lee Dongwoo of No Money, No Future (2016), created his second film with the main character of a homeless man he met at Tapgol Park in Jongno. One morning, this homeless man is drunk and approaches director Lee f

American Capitalism, A Self-Portrait

This found-footage film is made by cutting and pasting bits and pieces of institutional movies from the Prelinger archive fund. It aims at throwing light on American capitalism discursive dynamics.

an untitled self portrait archive film

an untitled self portrait archive film with footage sourced entirely from Internet Archive

Self-Portrait in Handcuffs

An inspiring portrait of Belorussian artist Ales Pushkin, who uses his performance art to wage a mini-resistance against the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko.

Split Infinities: Self-Portrait Reconsidered

"Two films & two iPhone sketches, with 40 years between them. Includes formal studies in light & shadow, subjectivity & objectivity, film material and the creative process. Filmmaker’s self-portrait in time, and by chanc

Self-portrait 2000

A man addicted to gambling loses his job and leaves his family. He lives at a 24-hour open sauna away from debt collectors, while borrowing money left and right to keep his habit going. When he finally gets the upper han

Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self Portrait

Hailed in France as a national treasure, Serge Gainsbourg was beloved both for his music and for being the country’s favorite ’enfant terrible’. This poetic documentary presents Gainsbourg entirely in his own words, acco

Self-Portrait with Head

“In her first film self-portrait, VALIE EXPORT wears an attention-getting curly wig and caresses a woman´s breasts in slow motion, then lasciviously closes and opens her eyes. The carefully applied makeup and wig tell of

Self-Portrait with a Lover

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., discusses his development as a writer, including references to some of his major novels, his themes and their meaning, his relationship to other writers, problems in sustaining his special vision of A

20 Seconds Animated Self Portrait

A teacher asks for his students to make an animated self portrait.

Self-Portrait at 13

A mother and her son use the same video tapes to record themselves in parallel timelines, overlapping different impressions of the world. Images from the 1990s reveal to us a world still failing to solve the same old pro

Spirit of '76 (Self-portrait)

An early work of Anne Charlotte Robertson, where "the sharp self-scrutiny, off-beat humor, and obsessive attention to details and textures that come to be important signatures of her subsequent films are crystallized." —

Untitled (Self-portrait in Blue)

A parody of the art film where sentimentality and self-consciousness are brought to an absurd level.

Out a Window: Self-portrait

Super 8mm. Colour. Sound. 3 minutes.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A Self-Portrait

In this captivating film by Gerald Caillat, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, at the age of 80, looks back on her musical life and tells the story of her glittering career. The documentary contains accompanying archival footage as