Movies: Filmmaking

Largely due to censorship, many films, especially documentaries and independent films, can't be released in China. But underground cinema clubs are making independent films accessible to Chinese audience despite the all the risks....

The film chronicles filmmaker Joel DeMott, significant other/film partner Jeff Kreines and filmmaker Mark Rance as they head to Michigan to make a low budget horror film....

After a long and obsessive casting process, a team of determined filmmakers finally secure the perfect lead actor for their movie. But on the first day of shooting they realise a big mistake has been made with their casting....

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

By letting go of the urge to control and embracing the unexpected, the creative process finds a new pulse. Thus, Gut Knows What Mind Does Not Understand aims to celebrate what emerges when we trust our intuition and the experiences the world offers u...

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking....

Two estranged friends, Chloe and Brooklyn, break down after fleeing the home of Micheal Davis, renowned Children’s Author, where he’s presumably been murdered. Brook attempts to take care of both the broken down car, Sabrina, and the wounded Chloe su...

Author Lee Clark Mitchell discusses the Western genre and literature....

Video piece, featuring journalist Buzz Bissinger, about trader Harry Goulding's key role in bringing Monument Valley to Hollywood....

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A micro-short film inspired by the stress of making movies...

Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was never produced....

A bombed city under martial law and powers on the verge of a new war gives home to deceit and uncertainty in 1948 Vienna. The city, divided among the allied powers, is also hosting the filming of The Third Man. Its star, American actor Orson Welles, ...

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The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary....

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets of Toronto, the two friends battle for control of the frame and struggle towards the meanings of art a...

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A teenager is stalked by another teen who says he is next....

History of Dutch women working behind the scenes of moviemaking....

Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to...