List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction, Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krsti?; Part One: Cinephilic Dialogues; 1: The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices, Laura Rascaroli, Susana Barriga, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Bo Wang; 2: Essay Films about Film: The 'Filmed Correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, Fernando Canet; Part Two: Mobilities and Movements; 3: Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration, Igor Krsti?; 4: 'Cottonopolis': Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic, Cathy Greenhalgh; 5: The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability, Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta; Part Three: Laboratory of Memories; 6: Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Variations of Uncle Boonmee, Christa Blümlinger; 7: 'Time Turning into Space': Innocence of Memories' Prismatic Istanbul, Tim O'Farrell; 8: Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories, Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska; Part Four: Landscapes of Trauma; 9: No Man's Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan, Marco Bohr; 10: 'Image-Writing': The Essayistic in Mainland Chinese Non-fiction Cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth, Tianqi Yu; Part Five: Archival Effects; 11: Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert's Talking Broken as Essay Film, Peter Kilroy; 12: Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv, Ilana Feldman; Afterimages: a Photo-Essay; 13: Strangely Real: Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha; Notes on the Contributors; Index.