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Disillusioned by a revival of public shaming via social media, a young Australian filmmaker confronts the real-world damage caused by a vicious online monster he created.
A short documentary about the making of the 1966 film 'Cul-de-sac'.
Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES
Lila Biro is a remarkable character who witnessed Rossellini in India, played a key role in the cutting of key titles of the French New Wave, and was a close collaborator of the Hungarian émigré painter, Atila Biro. For me, however, she’s also the star witness in a crime against film grammar: the jump cut. The editing style of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is now legendary, but I’ve always wondered what it must have been like in the cutting room when that revolutionary editorial decision was made. Thanks to Lila, that moment is vividly brought to life.
A documentary by writer and filmmaker Daniel Bird about the making of Sergei Parajanov's 'The Colour of Pomegranates'.
A documentary about the making of Walerian Borowczyk’s ‘Immoral Tales’.
This six-minute short from director Daniel Bird takes a look at the silent cinema pioneers that influenced the work of Walterian Borowczyk. We take a look at various aspects to THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE and then see the influence that some early silent filmmakers had on it. This includes the work of Georges Melies as well as others.
An exclusive talking head documentary about the film's production discusses how each aspect of the film was made and eventually halted.
During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals that were featured in his films. While he had used both encyclopedias and dictionaries to order chaos in his own films, this list saw Borowczyk putting his own life in order.
A visual essay about the the design of the titular beast in Walerian Borowczyk's "The Beast," as well as a synopsis of a treatment for the film's unmade sequel.
A documentary on the making of Roman Polanski's 1965 film "Repulsion," featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor, among others.
Three men are reunited after 30 years by the echoes of a terrible crime. Old men now, and at the end of the line they are intrigued to meet a young girl named Sarah. Through her they are plunged back into the sordid (and hilarious) belly of Australia's underworld, both past and present.
Poster analysis mini documentary.
A 19th century fur trapper must figure out his past when he awakens all alone in the Rocky Mountains badly hurt and with temporary amnesia.
Daniel Bird narrates the making of Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 film- Possession- covering the film’s inception, casting, shoot, it’s release in Cannes, and it’s reevaluation and cult status.
A short documentary about the making of Peter Graham's 'Gunpoint', featuring an interview with Graham.
The filmmakers revisit some of the shooting locations of THE CREMATOR with director Juraj Herz and chronicles the making of the 1969 film.
A visual essay about Walerian Borowczyk's works on paper.
You Are Fire is a collaborative project envisioned by Elvin Brandhi and Daniel Bird. This live film-performance reworks newly scanned 35mm outtakes and screen tests from the shooting of Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates or Sayat Nova (1969) into 15 film miniatures. Originally conceived as a film-poem about the life of the poet-ashugh, Arutin Sayadyan, each miniature grows out of textures – Armenian, Georgian and Azeri architecture, landscapes and objects – enabling the authenticity of an era to emerge. Using Tigran Mansurian and Yuri Sayadian’s original soundtrack as raw material, the musical heritage of Sayat Nova is brought to the fore, reimagining a performance by an ashugh, or singer-poet bard, at the early 21st-century crossroads of analogue and digital media.
A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk's short films and animation, featuring his collaborators from that time.
