Movies: Essay film
- 2023
Lynch/Oz (2023)
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Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work....
- 1973
F for Fake (1973)
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Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writi...
- 1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
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As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills....
- 2019
How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It (2019)
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"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how most beloved characters are subtly more well-off than they should be, how criticisms of the system are c...
- 1998
Borges: A Life in Poetry (1998)
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A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal, who establishes a bold parallelism between Borges' work and opinions and his own creations,...
- 2024
The Water Map (2024)
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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 disappearing due to the increasing and abundant agricultural exploitation. Water has marked the territory and th...
- 2019
A Film Inspired by Real Events (2019)
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Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart....
- 2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)
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A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observati...
- 2023
Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner (2023)
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Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all....
- 1972
Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)
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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 and reality....
- 2022
The March on Rome (2022)
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The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come....
- 1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)
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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 (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, ...
- 1969
In The Slit Throat (1969)
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Actor / director Aoki-Asta Konieczny attempts to get funding for her stage adaption of the seminal 1949 Polish science fiction film "In The Slit Throat" in the midst of a catastrophic snow storm....
- 2004
Visions of Europe (2004)
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Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors....
- 1993
Visit, or Memories and Confessions (1993)
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A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira....
- 2014
Long Live Hunting! (2014)
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- 2024
Exergo (2024)
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Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists....
- 2014
The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness (2014)
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By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel C...
- 2017
Arcadia (2017)
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A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human be...
- 1960
Magritte or the Object Lesson (1960)
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The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transforme...