Filmmaking Movies

Loving documentary about the invisible hand that brings light in the cinema: the projectionist. Momentarily, his booth is at the centre of this film,...

In the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting between Antonioni and Grifi, a film shot in the...

Documentary about the development of Buster Keaton's The Haunted House (1921).

A filmmaker takes revenge on a festival that has rejected her year after year. But her revenge will not be bitter, cruel or violent. Instead she will...

A fledgling young actor has finally secured a part in a promising production, but disagreements between the director and producer threaten to derail...

In 1978, two South Korean filmmakers--Director Shin Sang-ok and his star actress and ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee--were abducted and smuggled into North...

Behind-the-scenes tidbits of "The Legend of the Stardust Brothers".

A film crew hijacks their company's current production and improves it behind the director's back.

Over the course of one night, in a single motel room, two filmmakers discover a startling rumor about their lead actor hours before their film...

What happens when an immature, amateur filmmaker gathers a group of friends to create an unscripted, misguided passion project?

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

This documentary rescues the valuable work of Martha Colmenares, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec highlands, who in the 1980s filmed the life and...

Four Belgian-Moroccan filmmakers in their thirties produce their latest film. Since adolescence they have managed to produce over thirty low-budget...

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising...

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), was once the epicenter of American film...

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.

Marcos, an independent film and video editor, works editing late into the night. On a typical night at work, he has a seizure that causes him to lose...

Author Lee Clark Mitchell discusses the Western genre and literature.

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change.