Essay Film Movies
- 1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her6.2951967HD
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 tak...
- 1973
F for Fake
F for Fake7.4071973HD
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 nam...
- 2023
Lynch/Oz
Lynch/Oz72023HD
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 T...
- 1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories6.11989HD
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);...
- 1995
Cremaster 4
Cremaster 461995HD
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descensi...
- 2016
To Stay Alive: A Method
To Stay Alive: A Method5.42016HD
Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their l...
- 1972
Vampir Cuadecuc
Vampir Cuadecuc61972HD
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction an...
- 2019
Heimat Is a Space in Time
Heimat Is a Space in Time6.92019HD
Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a countr...
- 2024
Exergo
Exergo02024HD
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, work...
- 2004
Visions of Europe
Visions of Europe4.92004HD
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
- 2017
Arcadia
Arcadia7.12017HD
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...
- 1984
The So-Called Caryatids
The So-Called Caryatids6.21984HD
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buil...
- 2018
The Green Fog
The Green Fog6.1042018HD
A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California,...
- 1985
Hands Up!
Hands Up!5.7781985HD
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
- 2018
D is for Division
D is for Division6.32018HD
1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack of...
- 2018
Hard Border
Hard Border02018HD
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dw...
- 2022
The March on Rome
The March on Rome6.42022HD
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 wor...
- 2022
Cinema Now
Cinema Now22022HD
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.
- 1960
Ars
Ars5.71960HD
With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jac...
- 2018
Don't Work (1968-2018)
Don't Work (1968-2018)32018HD
A year in the life of Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, students of Fine Arts in Paris, lovers in troubled times, overwhelmed by maddening verbal and...