Movies: Filmmaking

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...

A stumped scriptwriter discovers a supernatural ability....

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton....

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What happens when an immature, amateur filmmaker gathers a group of friends to create an unscripted, misguided passion project?...

Four Belgian-Moroccan filmmakers in their thirties produce their latest film. Since adolescence they have managed to produce over thirty low-budget movies in which they often have played the main characters. Their movies are not only the sum of their...

Against a collage of excerpts that span thirty-four films, a filmmaker reflects on the community he has built over more then a decade of low-budget movie making in Oklahoma City....

The Good, the bad, and the girl. These lives come together as two thieves rob a bank while one life becomes collateral damage and the other changes for the better....

Akerman, Monteiro, Oliveira, Ruiz, Schroeter and Wenders are among the directors he produced: Deux, trois fois Branco is a portrait of Portuguese producer Paulo Branco, between life and legend....

College film major JP Dalton goes back home to talk with his friends about the past, present, and future....

A unique portrait of New York's iconic Raoul's Restaurant - told through the eyes of a filmmaker-turned-accidental-restaurateur who was trying to make a film about his father who is also a filmmaker-turned-accidental-restaurateur....

An in-depth documentary on renowned film producer James Ivory, co-founder of globally acclaimed Merchant Ivory Productions....

Filmed mostly on a Mini DV camera Gavin has thought of a quick way to become successful and be the master of the world but he has to wait for it all to fall into place… he has to wait for the postman to start production documenting the process of bei...

Directed by Jay "Dorkyswimmer" Abidin. Starring Kyfer Allchorne as David, someone who is trapped in the university for reasons unknown. David finds himself in a dark room, with the university building that he is in, to appear deserted but as he atte...

An independent filmmaker takes on the challenge of creating a large scale WW1 film. When faced with harsh weather conditions and the constraints of limited resources, the director and crew must battle every day to get the film across the line....

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week....

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924)....

A documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a look at some of the deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage, and notes on subtle things that you might have never seen or noticed before...

A short puppet animation. Winner of the Oofuji Noburou Award....

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 Wolfgang-Pierre Dubois VII, he must navigate the chaotic world of high-brow cinema while trying to simpl...