Movies: Video essay
- 2024
Daedalus (2024)
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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 nation below sea level. Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes t...
- 1969
Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis (1969)
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- 2024
A Brief History of Circles (2024)
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An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience....
- 2024
From Hitcom To Shitcom (And Back) (2024)
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A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre....
- 2013
Functions of Film Sound (2013)
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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 Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a me...
- 2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein (2023)
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- 2022
Rope’s End (2022)
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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)....
- 2021
Love in the Time of Corona (2021)
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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 sure that you are home before the curfew....
- 1969
How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick (1969)
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A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness in his filmography. Kubrick's obsession with 'crazy' characters who meet an untimely death disturbs Ph...
- 2022
reminiscence on the garden (2022)
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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 place and my time there. There are memories pollinated by the pollen of garden poppies the warmth of...
- 1998
Money, a Mythology of Darkness (1998)
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In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history....
- 2023
CARA-B (2023)
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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 of scientific discourse to produce revisions of the world, the evolution of the concept of the archive...
- 2023
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023)
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Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty of the new century, returns to the places synonymous with those incomparable and unforgettable films...
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal (2024)
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Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a treaty between man and nature whereby neither one of us shall pass these thresholds lest we become subje...
- 2024
Letter to My Tribe (2024)
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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 represents a more messianic perspective, and I have had numerous arguments, some recorded, some not. These form the...
- 2020
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (2020)
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A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna Karina, we can see some close-up faces that marked the history of the cinema, and whose demand is more rel...
- 1969
The Present Situation (1969)
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The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who kidnap a hedge-fund manager. Peppered throughout the narrative is a spectacle of video clips from a wide variety o...
- 2020
Last Year in Dachau (2020)
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Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An e...
- 2023
Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy (2023)
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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. Charles Chaplin and Edward Brewer...
- 2023
Rat Race : A Short Documentary (2023)
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Join College Student Parker Bennink and he interviews four of Rowan University's most prolific filmmakers, to uncover what life as a student filmmaker is really like in today's day and age....