Video Essay Movies

There are two Bergmans. One speaks English, the other Italian. They fall in love and set off impulsively to live together. But reality is far from eas...

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinemati...

Video essay on Heart of Stone, folktales and gothic horror by film and literature scholar Mary Going. Included on the Eureka! Entertainment release of...

A fictional boy aims to become a non-fictional rapper. His label has other plans.

The New York of News from Home was filmed in 1976, while the one of Taxi Driver was filmed in the summer of 1975. Both works reflect the same decadent...

A Video essay where Andrew Mercado discusses Ozploitation rarities. The Australian films discussed are: Final Cut [or Death Games] (1980),Road Games...

Video essay exploring Luca Guadagnino's filmmaking methods, focusing on the passionate dynamics of desire and ardent longing for connection that sizzl...

A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror by author and critic Kat Ellinger. She examines the film through “body Gothic”: t...

Chase Bridges gives his research on the fictional 80's tv show "Surfing Dracula", giving summaries of multiple episodes and the general plot of the sh...

A video poem about a house. The home, or at least its foundations, are what evoke memories of that childhood, now lost in time.

“Face of Centuries: Jan S. Kolár and the Afterlives of History” is an 18-minute visual essay created by experimental filmmaker and film scholar Stephe...

A cinematic essay by Sean Kelly about his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome.

A video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison where he gives a concise historical-and-critical companion to Alberto De M...

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware, search...

Non-human animals have always been around us, shaping and being shaped by our shared worlds. Yet in the modern city, their presence is increasingly ca...

A video essay on the history and morality of the Robin Hood legend.