Video Essay Movies
- 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...
- 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
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...
- 2024
A Brief History of Circles
A Brief History of Circles02024HD
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
- 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
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...
- 1970
The Present Situation
The Present Situation01970HD
The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who...
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis01970HD
- 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...
- 2021
Love in the Time of Corona
Love in the Time of Corona2.52021HD
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make...
- 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...
- 2020
Last Year in Dachau
Last Year in Dachau42020HD
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....
- 2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein1.52023HD
- 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
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
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....
- 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...
- 2022
Martin und Hans
Martin und Hans12022HD
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a...