Video Essay Movies
- 2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey22020HD
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...
- 1970
Sankofa
Sankofa01970HD
A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's three students from the Superior School of Arts and...
- 2024
Daedalus
Daedalus102024HD
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...
- 2013
Functions of Film Sound
Functions of Film Sound02013HD
This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...
- 2024
A Brief History of Circles
A Brief History of Circles02024HD
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
- 2023
CARA-B
CARA-B02023HD
A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal
A Weak & Panicked Animal02024HD
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...
- 2024
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens02024HD
A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.
- 2018
Wild Plants of Palestine
Wild Plants of Palestine02018HD
Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from...
- 1970
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis01970HD
- 1970
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick01970HD
A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness...
- 2022
Rope’s End
Rope’s End1.52022HD
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
- 2023
Rat Race : A Short Documentary
Rat Race : A Short Documentary02023HD
Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student...
- 2022
HIPERTEXTO
HIPERTEXTO102022HD
- 1970
no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)
no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)01970HD
YouTuber Jeffiot goes digging for the origins of skull trumpet / doot doot / mr skeltal, and ends up taking a trip to the early web heyday of...
- 2023
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker02023HD
Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...
- 2024
After James Benning's YouTube
After James Benning's YouTube02024HD
Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.
- 2024
Letter to My Tribe
Letter to My Tribe02024HD
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who...
- 2024
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)92024HD
A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre.
- 1998
Money, a Mythology of Darkness
Money, a Mythology of Darkness01998HD
In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.