Streets & Screens
Iván Villarmea Álvarez
Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the perspectives that local and outsider filmmakers bring to the essay film.
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The Fiction of Beirut: Reframing Labour Migration in Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste of Cement
Brenda Hollweg
Brenda Hollweg shows how Taste of Cement, part of the recent global growth of the essay film, explores Beirut through the perspective of its migrant workforce, unearthing the city's history and role in regional conflicts, as well as flows of labor.
The Diachronic Flâneur
Laura Rascaroli
Is the critical gaze on the city always a wandering gaze? Laura Rascaroli works through questions of usage and explores how the essay film thinks through its practices.
Introduction: Essay Films and the City
Igor Krstić
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion …