Essay Film Movies

  • 2026
    Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

    Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

    Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

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    Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
  • 2013
    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

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    This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks
  • 2021
    O Cinema é Minha Vida

    O Cinema é Minha Vida

    O Cinema é Minha Vida

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    In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

    O Cinema é Minha Vida
  • 2021
    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film

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    A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.

    Peter-Altenberg-ing - An Essay Film
  • 1968
    O malém světě

    O malém světě

    O malém světě

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    O malém světě
  • 1996
    What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government

    What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government

    What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government

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    Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s...

    What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
  • 2020
    The Drone Is The Message

    The Drone Is The Message

    The Drone Is The Message

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    The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

    The Drone Is The Message
  • 2010
    Michael Berger: A Hysteria

    Michael Berger: A Hysteria

    Michael Berger: A Hysteria

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    Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual systematic contexts and historical...

    Michael Berger: A Hysteria
  • 2006
    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

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    A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
  • 2013
    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James

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    A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was...

    Locations: Looking for Rusty James
  • 2025
    The Making of Michel Petite

    The Making of Michel Petite

    The Making of Michel Petite

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    The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

    The Making of Michel Petite
  • 1972
    Vampir Cuadecuc

    Vampir Cuadecuc

    Vampir Cuadecuc

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    An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

    Vampir Cuadecuc
  • 1989
    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

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    A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
  • 2014
    Long Live Hunting!

    Long Live Hunting!

    Long Live Hunting!

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    This documentary essay introduces a peculiar trio of men united by their passion for hunting. Each of them conceives of hunting in his own way,...

    Long Live Hunting!
  • 2026
    Outside/Inside

    Outside/Inside

    Outside/Inside

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    From Ji-hlava film festival catalogue: For seven years, the director follows the life of Ceci, a stray cat that gradually settles into his home...

    Outside/Inside
  • 1970
    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

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    His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at...

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait
  • 2024
    The Water Map

    The Water Map

    The Water Map

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    The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of...

    The Water Map
  • 2024
    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

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    Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

    this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom
  • 2016
    To Stay Alive: A Method

    To Stay Alive: A Method

    To Stay Alive: A Method

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    Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text...

    To Stay Alive: A Method
  • 1976
    Impressions of Upper Mongolia

    Impressions of Upper Mongolia

    Impressions of Upper Mongolia

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    The genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a...

    Impressions of Upper Mongolia