This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a means of discussing the use of sound in film.
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palesti...
For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind...
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stend...
George Lucas discusses how Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Monomyth (aka the Hero's Journey) ...
An analysis of Quentin Dupieux's film "Incredible But True" by film critic Elena Lazic.
Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinia...
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais sh...
A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent ...
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster...
Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'...
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive d...
A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".
A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill ...
Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets...
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jh...
A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's thr...
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s...