Video Essay Movies
- 2024
RESET
RESET02024HD
Commissioned for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) exhibition The Future & Other Fictions, this essayistic collage work explores the...
- 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 Adriaensens02024HD
A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.
- 2020
Last Year in Dachau
Last Year in Dachau42020HD
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....
- 2024
Letter to My Tribe
Letter to My Tribe02024HD
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...
- 2024
Daedalus
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"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...
- 2024
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.
- 2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein1.52023HD
- 2022
Rope’s End
Rope’s End1.52022HD
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
- 2021
Love in the Time of Corona
Love in the Time of Corona2.52021HD
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make...
- 2020
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna2.52020HD
A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna...
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal
A Weak & Panicked Animal02024HD
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a...
- 2024
After James Benning's YouTube
After James Benning's YouTube02024HD
Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.
- 2024
A Brief History of Circles
A Brief History of Circles02024HD
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
- 2022
HIPERTEXTO
HIPERTEXTO102022HD
- 2022
reminiscence on the garden
reminiscence on the garden102022HD
A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that...
- 2022
Martin und Hans
Martin und Hans12022HD
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a...
- 2024
Burnout
Burnout02024HD
Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship with fire - tracing its journey from control and...
- 2023
Rat Race : A Short Documentary
Rat Race : A Short Documentary02023HD
Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student...
- 2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey22020HD
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...
- 2018
Wild Plants of Palestine
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Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from...