Essay Film Movies

Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish...

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir,...

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

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

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...

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...

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