Movies: Filmmaking

A polemic against Werner Herzog and the making of "Fitzcarraldo", exploring the question of the filmmaker's ethical and moral responsibility....

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where Seven Chances was filmed, comparing archival images with contemporary photos, and sharing stories of...

Two public broadcast employees, tired of their dead-end jobs, set out to make a documentary proving aliens exist in a small Minnesotan farming community....

A young screenwriter with huge dreams struggles with writer's block. Day after day passes and he just can't write. But then as he leaves his usual routine he gets a great opportunity and is forced to write in order to achieve his dreams....

Thirty years, three eras: they have been trying to save the Hungarian film industry again and again over the decades. Among these attempts were highs, lows, countless deals and compromises. And now some say that we are living in the saddest period of...

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

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française....

The Invisible Subtitler is an independent documentary about the use of subtitles in cinema and the life of subtitlers themselves, focusing on the economic issues faced by the subtitlers and how they are currently invisible in the globalized business ...

When the frontman of a metal band takes an unfamiliar drug sold to him in exchange for the lives of his bandmates, he must fight off a drug-induced psychosis as well as the horrific thought of this deranged deal....

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....

Raphaël is an actor. For the first time, he has the lead role in a feature film. No one understands why he was chosen. In fact, no one really understands him....

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...

An Asian film crew’s attemptsat making a film while navigating the strict laws of filming in the UK. They don’t have a budget or enough preparation, all they have is a shared passion to create. Stay Maybe is a comparison of cultures, at times sublime...

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops....

FREE BIRD – Stop Motion Escape Story | Vertical Short Film Made on Mobile. Trapped on a desk high above the ground, a tiny diecast car finally breaks free from its cage. With its owner distracted in the shower, loud music covers its daring escape—un...

While making a documentary about a heavily polluted town, an ambitious filmmaker takes interest in a reserved teenager as a compelling subject....

An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder....

A group of high school boys attempt to create a movie during the summer before college starts and before they go their separate ways....

See how the VeggieTales episodes are made! Plus, hear the heart and purpose of VeggieTales from the creators, Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, as they sit down for an entertaining conversation with Matt and Laurie Crouch....

Documentary on Christian Schocher, director of the legendary «Reisender Krieger» (1980)....