The Essay Film

This weeks reading draws upon the history of the “film essay”, a seemingly avant garde category of film in its early days is a medium in which an artist has the ability to not only flex their nerd muscle, but their art muscle too, being described as the “leading fiction for for artistic and intellectual innovation”.

Rascaroli speaks about how the film essay can draw upon personal and autobiographical elements from its creator, begging for the artistic expression of a rounded argument portrayed from both sides. The film essay is very flexible in that abstract conventions and pulls are all thrown in. The film essay is really about the person who makes it as described by Rascaroli “the filmmaker and scriptwriter become one”.

This concept ties into the idea that the creator of a K-Film says something about themselves through a film. The themes and content is completely up to the creator.