In Stilleben, Harun Farocki’s 1995 essay film (or film essay), we see a comparison between still-life paintings from the 17th-century and current commercial advertisements. The film aims to explore ...

"Understood?" There's a new video essay series + short film premiering soon that you might want to take a look at - unveiling soon up in Canada. The Second is the short film that is part of a new ...

Between 2014 and 2016, a YouTube channel called Every Frame a Painting posted 28 video essays critiquing movies and dissecting different aspects of filmmaking before it went silent. Taylor Ramos and ...

It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...

Netflix’s Sundance-selected documentary essay — which unpacks the history of American policing — is highly detailed, but lacks rigor and force. Despite clocking in under an hour and a half, “Power” is ...

When I started as a programmer at MoMA in 1961, it was very European-focused. Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir. Nothing against Renoir. He's one of the best. But at that time, a film ...

A History of Film in Uganda is a film essay/documentary that documents the the birth and evolution of Film and TV production as a cultural practice within the geographical confines of present-day ...

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing, and aestheticized details, the director ...