What is cinema? /

Chuck Workman is best known for creating unforgettable Oscar montage sequences and for his award-winning documentaries. Here he demonstrates his command of cinematic language, creating a visual essay out of clips from films that pushed the boundaries of the art form and gave us ideas of what the fut...

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Other Authors: Akerman, Chantal (interviewee (expression)), Altman, Robert, 1925-2006 (interviewee (expression)), Bresson, Robert (interviewee (expression)), Costa-Gavras, 1933- (interviewee (expression)), Epstein, Robert P., 1955- (interviewee (expression)), Franco, James, 1978- (interviewee (expression)), Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 (interviewee (expression)), Hoberman, J. (interviewee (expression)), Jacobs, Ken, 1933- (interviewee (expression)), Kiarostami, Abbas (interviewee (expression)), Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998 (interviewee (expression)), Leigh, Mike, 1943- (interviewee (expression)), Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 (interviewee (expression)), Lynch, David, 1946- (interviewee (expression)), Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 (interviewee (expression)), Moore, Michael, 1954 April 23- (interviewee (expression)), Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- (interviewee (expression)), Reichardt, Kelly (interviewee (expression)), Viola, Bill, 1951- (interviewee (expression))
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Persian
Language Notes:English and some French and Farsi with English subtitles; optional SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published: [New York] : Cohen Media Group, 2014.
Edition:DVD edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bonus short films: Ballet Mécanique / Fernand Léger (1924) (11 min.)
  • Return to reason / Man Ray (1923) (2 min.)
  • Leave me alone / Man Ray (1926) (16 min.)
  • The sea star = L'étoile de mer / Man Ray (1928) (16 min.)
  • The mysteries of the chateau of dice = Les mystères de château du dé / Man Ray (1929) (20 min.)
  • The life and death of 9413 : a Hollywood extra / Slovko Vorkapich and Robert Florey (1927) (14 min.)
  • Peyote queen / Storm de Hirsch (1965) (9 min.)
  • Notes on the circus / Jonas Mekas (1968) (13 min.)
  • Flo rounds a corner / Ken Jacobs (1999) (6 min.)
  • Turn it back / Lewis Klahr (2013) (3 min.)
  • The emblazoned apparitions / Phil Solomon (2013) (6 min.).