Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent

Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent

0.020130h 7mDir. Kevin B. Lee
Documentary

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware, searching form of cinema through both video and text.

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