Filmmaking Movies

For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker...

A short documentary about the making of D. W. Griffith's controversial 'The Birth of a Nation'.

A documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a look at some of the deleted scenes,...

a documentary and a fiction about reflecting on "pre-cinema".

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece.

Two struggling friends chase dreams, battling rejections and unforeseen challenges in their artistic careers, reflecting the under-appreciated life...

A teenage girl roams the streets trying to buy alcohol. Then she gets desperate...

Against a collage of excerpts that span thirty-four films, a filmmaker reflects on the community he has built over more then a decade of low-budget...

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

This cinematic portrait shows the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work. The much-discussed ‘Seidl method’ is conveyed here vividly and...

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial...

A young college student Olivia is forced to face a tragic event that has happened in her life. Her close friend Noah works to help her overcome these...

In the heart of a bustling city, two skilled thieves, Connor Mason and John Maverick, are assigned to root out a potential traitor within The Guild...

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck (1921).

The evolution of The Scarecrow (1920) is discussed in this documentary.

A director (P. Chann) tries to make a movie following the guise of Joseph Campbell's framework.

"Diablo Viejo" was going to be a family road trip movie, but the production stops when the co-directors' 9 year relationship comes to an end. After...