Essay Movies

  • 2022
    The Whale

    The Whale

    The Whale

    7.8392022HD

    A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

    The Whale
  • 1970
    axiom

    axiom

    axiom

    01970HD

    An auteur-director who wishes to make a documentary about Armenia imagines a fictitious character that has the ability to travel through bodies. The...

    axiom
  • 2023
    My Family Essay

    My Family Essay

    My Family Essay

    92023HD

    An orphan narrates his essay “What is Family?” and how he found his answer when he met “Surfing Uncle” developing a bond like...

    My Family Essay
  • 2024
    Life & Surviving

    Life & Surviving

    Life & Surviving

    02024HD

    An essay/documentary film that meditates on the concept of life, living & surviving. It tries to raise the questions on how we live, why we live the...

    Life & Surviving
  • 2024
    Bounded Intimacy

    Bounded Intimacy

    Bounded Intimacy

    02024HD

    Bounded Intimacy (part of the trilogy of Super 8mm shorts It’s Just Business, Baby) examines the histories of various forms of body labor...

    Bounded Intimacy
  • 2023
    American Journal

    American Journal

    American Journal

    5.22023HD

    A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie...

    American Journal
  • 2024
    Since I Left You

    Since I Left You

    Since I Left You

    02024HD

    Scored by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches and produced by Junk Food Dinner, SINCE I LEFT YOU is a visual essay about synchronicity,...

    Since I Left You
  • 2022
    Horny Kid - A film essay

    Horny Kid - A film essay

    Horny Kid - A film essay

    02022HD

    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.

    Horny Kid - A film essay
  • 2024
    Estudio de danza

    Estudio de danza

    Estudio de danza

    02024HD

    The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has...

    Estudio de danza
  • 1970
    Wa(te)r

    Wa(te)r

    Wa(te)r

    01970HD

    What is a film if not a therapeutic act? Wa(te)r is a poetiс reflection on my 2022–2023 diary entries, poured from one medium to...

    Wa(te)r
  • 2024
    Rostros perdidos

    Rostros perdidos

    Rostros perdidos

    02024HD

    Rostros perdidos
  • 2011
    Mother of the World

    Mother of the World

    Mother of the World

    02011HD

    Six million tons, suspended by the slightest gesture. Mother of the World presents a series of brief vignettes of Cairo just prior to the 2011...

    Mother of the World