The Screen Director

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific...

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on...

A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.

A young girl relates what happened during her first LSD trip, when – among other things – her food began talking to her.

Documentary about a hostel for workers. An old worker suspected of stealing a motor gets fired from the factory and must leave the hostel.

Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life. Pretty surprising film coming from...

A high-speed view of Paris via train-track; Zooming down the Seine by boat. Chomette's first film, Games of Reflections and Speed, traverses tunnels a...

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

Film historians examines the making of the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951),directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in...

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew...

Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.