Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which Graziella Magherini described scientifically in 1979 as Stendhal syndrome. Mark Rappaport describes his fascination for the Austrian actor Turhan Bey, who made a career in exotic roles in Hollywood in the 1940s. A very personal essay about the effect of close-ups, the canvas idols of the dream factory and the role of their admirers and fans.
The collective life of the generation born as Jurij Gagarin became the first man in space. Vitaly Ma...
Chris Elliot plays FDR in his live "One Man Show" about the life and times of the president, however...
Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging...
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s...
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais sh...
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of w...
Documentary on a murder associated with members of Savannah, Georgia society. This becomes an occasi...
Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscove...
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner ...
This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Fil...
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive d...
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) ...
Deceased but not forgotten. In 2017, Switzerland's most famous mountaineer, "Swiss Machine" Ueli Ste...
A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regard...
What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Gar...
An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engine...