Filmmaker's Holiday

The film is put together as a collection of autonomous images which, once combined, make up van der Keuken's mental universe: family happiness, fragments of some of his earlier films, a homage to the saxophonist Ben Webs

The High Sign: A Filmmaker Emerges

Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' (1921) and Keaton's developing style.

A Filmmaker in La Codorniz

“A filmmaker in La Codorniz” is the story of Enrique Herreros, a Madrid artist ahead of his time, a member of the “other generation of 27”, a pioneer of the Spanish film industry and one of the architects of turning Gran

A Finnish Filmmaker in Hollywood

Director Arvo Tamminen and actor Tuulikki Paananen visit Hollywood in this documentary film. The two have a look around the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio lot, where they meet MGM's famous lion mascot and some talented eleph

Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.

John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend

John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself. It was a relationship

Idea assurda per un filmmaker - Ester

Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian experimental film axiom Valie Export. This portrayal of the filmmaker is quite special as it presents Export at a very part

A Filmmaker And His Secrets

Richard Hobert, the director behind the Seven Deadly Sins series, was long silent about the sins described in these films. One summer evening in Österlen in 2000, he revealed the answers. Richard Hobert himself and the p

Idea assurda per un filmmaker - Luna

Norodom Sihanouk, King and Film-maker

Profile of the Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, at the head of a country that has experienced colonization, the wars of the 20th century and the tragic period of the Khmers Rouge.

Idea assurda per un filmmaker - Germana

Med Hondo – Rebel African Film-maker

The story of Mohamed "Med" Hondo, from his humble beginnings in Mauritania, to smuggling himself on board a ship to France, to finding recognition as a modern African cinema director and actor.

Andrzej Wajda: On Becoming a Filmmaker

Directed by Izabela Frank (as Izabela Muchlinski), Izabella Muchlinski (2005)

No Time to Think: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker

A freewheeling video essay about Bob Dylan's underexamined work as a filmmaker, based on the book by Michael Glover Smith

The Ways of an Animal Filmmaker

Siegfried Bergmann, with his oeuvre of around 80 films, is one of the most important German wildlife filmmakers alongside Heinz Sielmann and Bernhard Grzimek. But Bergmann was more interested in the ant lion in the Lausi

Idea assurda per un filmmaker - Matilde

The Growing Of A Young Filmmaker

A documentary about a high school dropout. Uses scenes and narrative from movies which he made to show how his attitude toward learning was changed from apathy to zeal by his movie-making experiences.

A filmmaker & a toy bus

A playful homage to Buses don't stop here anymore. Filmed at an 8mm workshop hosted by Sandy McLennan in October 2023.

Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?

An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave.