Video Essay Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    01970HD

    A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's three students from the Superior School of Arts and...

    Sankofa
  • 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
  • 1970
    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    01970HD

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024
    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)

    92024HD

    A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre.

    From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back)
  • 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
  • 2024
    Burnout

    Burnout

    Burnout

    02024HD

    Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship with fire - tracing its journey from control and...

    Burnout
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2022
    HIPERTEXTO

    HIPERTEXTO

    HIPERTEXTO

    102022HD

    HIPERTEXTO
  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    1.52022HD

    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
  • 2022
    Lullaby of Ukraine

    Lullaby of Ukraine

    Lullaby of Ukraine

    02022HD

    Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion...Let everyone ask themselves and the leaders of their countries: what...

    Lullaby of Ukraine
  • 2023
    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    02023HD

    An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy