Like letters, poems and short texts, the fragmentary and epistolary propensity of visual essays mobilize the affective and haptic materiality of writing, creating a distance while simultaneously attempting to bridge that distance as a trace of affect and bodily perception. These clips, some of them drawn from past and upcoming videographic films, others extracted from an unwritten script, are autoethnographies that explore the interplay between personal experience and cultural phenomena. They serve as evocative reflections on culture and history, philosophy and science, images and words.