Milk Boy - A film essay
A filmmaker revisits footage from his first trip to Japan with his mother over birthday cake, only to uncover how years of undiagnosed lactose intolerance quietly shaped his childhood, imagination, and the ways he learne
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A filmmaker revisits footage from his first trip to Japan with his mother over birthday cake, only to uncover how years of undiagnosed lactose intolerance quietly shaped his childhood, imagination, and the ways he learne
What are crows? Take a minute to learn about and meditate on a few facts about them.
History...technology...the future... Are these opposing forces? Who is in control? Where are we? These are questions
A filmmaker's reflections on the afflictions of his uncle. An attempt at picking through the rubble of a life marked by mental anguish.
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.
A nameless individual relives an old pastime and reflects on his life while leading a film crew through a drainage tunnel underneath Home Depot.
Hotel rooms are rarely the destination for pilgrimage. In one hotel room, an iconic picture was taken - the portrait of Theodor Herzl, the most renowned zionist leader. Filmmaker Matan Tal visits the room and explores
A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.
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.
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
This is Meg. She has TMJ and not a lot of time to work on it.
Boynextdoor film essay: finding home
A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).
A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richar
a Video Essay by David Cairns
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