Kogonada

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend's wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective ...

After Yang (2022)

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a d ...

Once There Was Everything (2017)

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work. ...

Columbus (2017)

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Case ...

What Is Neorealism? (2017)

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according to Italian director Vittorio De Sica, and the other according to Hollywood producer David O. Selznick. ...

Wes Anderson: From Above (2017)

A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography. ...

Way of Ozu (2016)

Kogonada's video essay showcases the similarities of the multiple films Yasujiro Ozu made in his lifetime. Ozu created a genre of his own – a way of filmmaking that was cultivated and nourished throughout Ozu's career as a filmmaker. ...

Godard in Fragments (2016)

In the 1960s, pioneering French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard introduced the world to a new cinematic lexicon, generated from his innovative, auteurist style. Between 1960 and 1967 alone, he made fifteen features (beginning with his groundbreaking dé ...

The Way of Folk (2016)

In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and the soci ...

Restoring the Apu Trilogy (2015)

In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there were no technologies available at the time capable of fully restoring such badly damaged film elements, the ...

Dreams of Cinema (2015)

This new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada explores the many layers of director Francois Truffaut's masterpiece "Day for Night. ...

Elemental (2015)

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series. ...

On Solace (2015)

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements. ...

Mirrors of Bergman (2015)

Filmmaker Kogonada reflects on women and mirrors in the films of Ingmar Bergman. ...

Auteur in Space (2015)

A video essay on how Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris transcends science fiction. ...

Criterion Designs (2014)

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art commissioned by the Criterion Collection, including never-before-seen sketches and concept art. ...

Trick or Truth (2014)

"I wanted to write a fantasy with the atomic bomb as the theme. ...

The Eye & the Beholder (2014)

A visual essay for "La dolce vita," directed by Kogonada for the Criterion Collection. ...

Eyes of Hitchcock (2014)

When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes of a victim, a murderer, a witness). This momentary suspension between death and life is partly what makes ...

Hands of Bresson (2014)

A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection. ...

Wes Anderson: Centered (2014)

As is made abundantly clear by this highly entertaining supercut of Wes Anderson's films, the creator of such modern classics as The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Grand Budapest Hotel is a BIG fan of symmetry. ...

Linklater: On Cinema and Time (2013)

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater's distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in ...

Malick: Fire & Water (2013)

Of all the recurring signatures of Malick, his use of fire and water might be the most telling, in part because there's a significant shift between early Malick (Badlands & Days of Heaven) and later Malick (The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Lif ...

The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu (2013)

The cinema of Koreeda Hirokazu is defined by moments of everyday life. Whatever potential there is for heightened drama – the suicide of a husband, a cult massacre, abandoned children – it is diffused by the familiar rhythms of everydayness. This atten ...

BIFA: 15 Years (2013)

Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the Hill (2013)

Video Essay on King of the Hill ...

Ozu: Passageways (2012)

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between spaces of modern life, in the transitory: alleys are no longer dark and threatening traps where suspense is b ...

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective (2012)

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick ...

Sounds of Aronofsky (2012)

Sound in film is often complimentary. Rarely does it suggest an aesthetic of its own. The punctuating, rhythmic soundscapes of Aronofsky are the exception. They stay with you long after the film. ...

Tarantino: From Below (2012)

Tarantino // From Below Music: Kaifuku Suru Kizu by Salyu ...

Lunch Line (2010)

Reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program's surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future. Six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House. Their un ...

Young Arabs (2008)

Young Arabs takes viewers inside an elite preparatory school in heart of Cairo, Egypt. The film offers a quiet encounter with a collection of students as they reflect on God, America, terrorism, marriage, the Middle East, and more. ...

Art-House America: Austin Film Society (2023)

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to its e ...

Dreams of Cinema (2015)

This new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada explores the many layers of director Francois Truffaut's masterpiece "Day for Night. ...

On Solace (2015)

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements. ...