Filmmaking Movies

Video interview with Ford's grandson, Dan Ford about the director and his home movies.

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

As a film director works on his submission for a film festival, the mounting issues during production reveal what truly unfolds behind (the scenes)...

A short documentary on the making of the 1946 film Ziegfeld Follies.

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

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

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

A film crew is shooting a scene. Their gestures gradually slip into dancing, revealing the beauty lying in the choreography of film sets.

A rag-tag group of young film lovers gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to make their own movies to be screened for a powerful director. However,...

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

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...

Students' team shoot a short film. Tensions, nearness, funny situations created by the plateau. A game of hide-and-seek takes place between the life,...

ADM:DOP (Anthony Dod Mantle - Director of Photography) is an impressionistic look into the creative life and vision of cinematographer Anthony Dod...

Marina is a young actress in the middle of a preparation process for a character called Luísa, a timid boom operator, who finds herself...

A documentary about the career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International Studios. (An early version of this film, only 20 minutes in length,...

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were...

History of Dutch women working behind the scenes of moviemaking.

Film about Marcel Hanoun at work while making his film Les amants de Sarajevo in 1993.