Filmmaking Movies

Short documentary about Buster Keaton's first venture into features.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

Marcos, an independent film and video editor, works editing late into the night. On a typical night at work, he has a seizure that causes him to lose...

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

When up and coming actor Allen Stevens lands a role in an over-the-top, pretentious art film directed by the self-obsessed auteur Arthur Reginald...

A problematic couple is troubled with their conflicts. Outside the fictional reality of the film that pictures the couple, Bruna, a girl that is...

Dinosaurs Vs. Apes: DINOSAUR MOVIES and HOLLYWOOD GOES APE! have been hailed as the definitive documentaries on the prehistoric and anthropoid...

A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, monuments and time. Filmed on and around the Great...

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

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

Explores behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Closures of many...

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

For this inform­at­ive new one-off, film writer Ian Nathan focuses on the first 60 years of British film, from the inven­tion of cinema...

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

A documentary on the life and career of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., with clips from his films and interviews with the cast and crews of some of his...

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

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...

Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.