Movies: Filmmaking

The latest work from Australian political satirist, cartoonist and filmmaker Bruce Petty contemplates our efforts to imagine the future using animated and live-action sequences, fiction and reality. An accident takes place during the filming of a doc...

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991....

A group of frustrated actors, writers and directors take to the desert to make a film about themselves, then get lost in it....

Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get any dvd from the directors. He's decided to collect his dvds meeting the directors who he used to work with, and he faces the fact that he couldn't hav...

The Making of It's Always Fair Weather with footage and discussion by historians and participants....

David Carradine discusses his career and memories of making Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat....

Bruce Campbell discusses his memories of making Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat....

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as ...

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DIYSEX is a film that reflects on the use of the image and the language of mainstream pornography, and wonders how far this use can transcend when making your porn film....

Filmmaking in the silent film era. Stuntman Tom is tired of falling into the dirt for other people and now takes it into his own hands to be promoted to star of the film....

This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s....

Roundtable discussion of the films of Quentin Tarantino with four film critics....

This documentary about Easy Rider was created by Nicholas Freand Jones and first aired on BBC2 in December 1995....

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Documentary about the making of Chaplin (1992)....

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations used in the filming of The General and offers glimpses of how they look today....

A coming-of-age documentary that follows a group of young filmmakers as they make their first feature film, Scuba....

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very influential, Indigenous film makers. The film The Camera on The Shore is a feature length introduction to Barry...

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week....