The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working within images. With this non-competitive section of the festival, both MUBI and FILMADRID will offer the video essay format the platform and visibility it deserves. The seven selected works will premiere online from June 5 through June 11, 2023, on MUBI's online publication Notebook. The selection was made by the Notebook editors and FILMADRID.
Fading Apparition by Vasco Vasconcelos
In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, sleep is a form of resistance in a contemporary world that seeks to break its cycles. Using some of the director’s images together with varied sound references, this video essay aims to create an experience without beginning and end but, like sleep, with a cyclic structure.—Vasco Vasconcelos