Video Essay Movies

  • 2024
    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

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    An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.

    A Brief History of Circles
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

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    "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...

    Daedalus
  • 2023
    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

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

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
  • 2023
    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

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    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
  • 1970
    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

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    A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness...

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick
  • 2013
    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

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    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...

    Functions of Film Sound
  • 2024
    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

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    A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre.

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
  • 2024
    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

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    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...

    Letter to My Tribe
  • 2021
    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

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    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...

    Love in the Time of Corona
  • 2024
    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

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    Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...

    A Weak & Panicked Animal
  • 1970
    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

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    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
  • 2023
    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

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    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....

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy
  • 2020
    Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

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    Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....

    Last Year in Dachau
  • 2023
    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    CARA-B

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    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...

    CARA-B
  • 1970
    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

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    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...

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)
  • 2022
    reminiscence on the garden

    reminiscence on the garden

    reminiscence on the garden

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    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...

    reminiscence on the garden
  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

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    A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

    Rope’s End
  • 1970
    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

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    The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who...

    The Present Situation
  • 2020
    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

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    A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna...

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

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    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube