In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between...

A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills.

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

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations...

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on making the iconic film.

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story...

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital...

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for...

Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well...

Featuring interviews from members of the casting, production design, costume design, and creature effects teams, follow the behind-the-scenes journey...

The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews...

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem...

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray...