Essay Film Filmes

A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.

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

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by...

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...

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at...

In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past...

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...

White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the...

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be...

A video-letter to Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and author of the unforgivable "Art for Dummies".

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

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,...

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. A short essay film about my very own Internet,...