Video Essay Movies

  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

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    A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

    Rope’s End
  • 2018
    Wild Plants of Palestine

    Wild Plants of Palestine

    Wild Plants of Palestine

    02018HD

    Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from...

    Wild Plants of Palestine
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    102024HD

    "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

    Daedalus
  • 2013
    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    02013HD

    This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...

    Functions of Film Sound
  • 2023
    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    02023HD

    Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
  • 2023
    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    02023HD

    A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

    CARA-B
  • 2024
    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    02024HD

    Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who...

    Letter to My Tribe
  • 2024
    RESET

    RESET

    RESET

    02024HD

    Commissioned for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) exhibition The Future & Other Fictions, this essayistic collage work explores the...

    RESET
  • 2020
    Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

    42020HD

    Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....

    Last Year in Dachau
  • 2024
    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

    02024HD

    An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.

    A Brief History of Circles
  • 2023
    Swimming, Dancing

    Swimming, Dancing

    Swimming, Dancing

    02023HD

    Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

    Swimming, Dancing
  • 2024
    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    A Weak & Panicked Animal

    02024HD

    Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...

    A Weak & Panicked Animal
  • 1970
    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    01970HD

    A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness...

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick
  • 2023
    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary

    02023HD

    Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student...

    Rat Race : A Short Documentary
  • 2020
    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    22020HD

    Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
  • 1970
    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    The Present Situation

    01970HD

    The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who...

    The Present Situation
  • 1970
    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    01970HD

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
  • 2022
    HIPERTEXTO

    HIPERTEXTO

    HIPERTEXTO

    102022HD

    HIPERTEXTO
  • 2024
    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    02024HD

    A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    02024HD

    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube