Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent

The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capi

1998

Off to School

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their p

2025

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

2004

Panoramas

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people and

2019

Donosti 2730

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema,

2024

FFG: un retrato

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

1976

Im Reich Des Squatters

2020

Assimilation Memories

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

2020

Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty

2023

Arcadia

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey

2017

This is Not a Game

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic y

2021

Unpublished Visions

Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines

2021

Linklater: On Cinema and Time

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’

2013

sin título

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be pr

2021

KWAIDAN

2022

The Weight of Sight

The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything fro

2024

Exergo

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic

2024

F for Fake

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his nam

1973

The Contact Enigma

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

2021

Fungus

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and c

2000