Cinema Veritas

A Season for Cinema: Visual insight in Iran; Cinema, Light, Truth

Part 10 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

A Season for Cinema: Iranian music and film music

Part 11 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

Cinema Exercises

A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.

A Season for Cinema: Iranian Epic Literature, the adaptation of Ferdowsi's 'Shahnameh' for screenplay

Part 9 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

Prehistory of Cinema

Several countries claim the invention of the cinematograph. Belgium does not have this claim. Some Belgians, however, played a fairly important role in what is called the prehistory of cinema. This 18-minute film does no

Impressions of the History of Transgender Characters in Brazilian Cinema

Explores how representations of transgender characters on screen often lack positive approaches.

Jean Epstein or Cinema by Itself

From the French television series Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, the episode uploaded here, Jean Epstein ou le Cinéma pour lui-même, was produced and (I'm pretty certain) directed by Claude-Jean Philippe. There is

Bad Movie: The Movie

Two geeky video bloggers are sucked into a truly awful Z movie. On their return to the real world, they discover they have been pursued by the characters of the trashy films they adore.

The Myth of Cinecittà

Documentary telling the history of Cinecittà, and how it contributed to Italian cinema development.

Modati Cinema

Sreeram is from a rich family. Sindhu is a middle-class girl with a nagging step mother and a strict father. Sreeram is impressed by Sindhu at first sight. He helps her solve her family problems. In the process, she misu

Images of the Mind: Cinematic Visions by Raymond Durgnat

An introduction to the great film critic Raymond Durgnat's appreciation of the nature of cinema.

Refugees in Cinecittà

Cinecitta, the great movie studio built by Mussolini, became universally known as 'Hollywood on the Tiber' and as Fellini's second home. But in an interim period (1944-50) it served very different functions, quite unlike

The Angry Young Men of Korean Cinema

Measuring up well to their older American counterparts –- Scorcese, Coppola, De Palma or Friedkin –- the new Korean auteurs likewise seek to integrate the political turbulence of their land, particulaly the trauma of the

Alexa Boulton: Cinema

Alexa Boulton interviews the students and teachers of Kelvin High School to uncover the possibilities for the future of cinema

A Season for Cinema: The documentary vision

The final part of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

The Dual Absence - cinema version

Based on family archives, the artist tells an intimate story about uprooting, heritage and absence. This movie highlights the emotional value of ordinary images and questions what we choose to pass down or hide.

Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont: The First Giants of Cinema

From Méliès to 3D: The Cinema Machine

Steadicam tour of the 2016-2017 exhibition "From Méliès to 3D: The Cinema Machine" at Cinémathèque française, Paris.