Essay Film Movies

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

A rose is a rose by any other name would be, well, something different, particularly if the rose was a woman. This tape is a witty and thoughtful...

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...

A written testimony by co-director Jin Ryoo on his experience preparing for Korean compulsory military service is juxtaposed with images of an empty...

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

"In ancient China the tiger skin represented 'continuous change'. In the Maya’s world, Bolom Chon’s (jaguar) hide, allowed the...

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...

Florent Tillon takes an anthropological lens to Las Vegas, Nevada. What he finds is some curious new species of Americana. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA...

A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poignant analogy between the phases of their...