Video Essay Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2021
    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    2.52021HD

    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...

    Love in the Time of Corona
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2022
    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee

    02022HD

    A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, which was also largely built up by migration...

    Klassenverhältnisse am Bodensee
  • 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