Video Essay Movies
- 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...
- 1970
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis01970HD
- 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...
- 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.
- 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).
- 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...
- 2023
Swimming, Dancing
Swimming, Dancing02023HD
Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein1.52023HD
- 2022
reminiscence on the garden
reminiscence on the garden102022HD
A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that...
- 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...
- 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.
- 2023
Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy
Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy02023HD
An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....
- 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.
- 2022
Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee
Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee02022HD
A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration...