THEME EXPLORATION

visual essay

20 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Persian Series #5
1999 · Stan Brakhage

Film ist Rhythmus: Rhythmus 21
1921 · Hans Richter

The Sound of Claudia Schiffer

The Sound of Claudia Schiffer
2000 · Nicolas Roeg

Art Through Our Eyes
2016 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Jim Ritchie Sculptor

Jim Ritchie Sculptor
1971 · David Cronenberg

Untitled: New Blue
1995 · Paul Schrader

City Life
1990 · Béla Tarr & Mrinal Sen

Signs of Mr. Plum
2026 · Urszula Morga

12 Photographers
1955 · Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
2010 · Sergei Eisenstein

Complexe
1964 · Nobuhiko Obayashi

Dimanche à Pekin
1956 · Chris Marker

Fire Island
1974 · Derek Jarman

“Histoire d’eaux” (segment) in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

“Histoire d’eaux” (segment) in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002 · Bernardo Bertolucci

The Bible
1977 · Marcel Carné

The Colours
1976 · Abbas Kiarostami

Crossing the Line
2008 · Peter Jackson

Kino-Week No. 24

Kino-Week No. 24
1918 · Dziga Vertov

Matchless (John Papadopoulos, ) production assistant

Matchless (John Papadopoulos, ) production assistant
1974 · Phillip Noyce

Perceptual Learning
1965 · Arthur Lipsett

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Chris Marker France

Pioneer of the essay film form who blends documentary, philosophy, and visual poetics to create meditative works that explore memory, history, and human consciousness through innovative montage and voiceover.

Agnès Varda France

Master of the visual essay who uses documentary realism, experimental techniques, and intimate observation to craft deeply personal reflections on society, aging, and the act of looking itself.