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The South African artist William Kentridge has achieved a worldwide reputation with his large, poetic and incisive installations. Over t...

What are Creative Commons licenses? Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatical...

Promotion refers to raising customer awareness of a product or brand, generating sales, and creating brand loyalty. It is one of the four...

An illusion is a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Though illusions...

Kurosawa had an innate understanding that there is inherent drama in the wind blowing in the trees. Like Andrei Tarkovsky and later Terr...

16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film, with other common film gauges in...

Cinema Remake shows that completely new creations can emerge from older work. The origins of the remakes are therefore sometimes difficul...

Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nine...

The Archives Portal Europe also cooperates with Europeana to make archival material searchable and findable within its cross-domain approa...

The Dogme 95 Collective caught the attention of the international film world with its strict "vows of chastity" or rules for fil...

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The earliest practical and commercially successful color photography reversal process was the Lumière Autochrome, introduced in 1907. This...

Movement can be used extensively by film makers to make meaning. It is how a scene is put together to produce an image. A famous example o...

Unlike traditional movies largely dominated by studios, clip movies are overwhelmingly supplied by amateurs. In May 2006, The Economist re...

Today, 10 to 20% of box office receipts in Spain are generated by domestic films, a situation that repeats itself in many nations of Europ...

Alex Author: Alex Soloviev Author webpage: https://vimeo.com/alexsoloviev Licence: ATTRIBUTION LICENSE 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/l...

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet and Russian filmmak...

Magic (sometimes referred to as stage or street magic to distinguish it from paranormal or ritual magic) is one of the oldest performing a...

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features a...

The term digital rights describes the human rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access a...

  Fiction is the classification for any story created by the imagination and, therefore, not based strictly on history or fact. Fiction can ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painte...

A new Dutch film Nova Zembla is a 2011 Dutch historical drama film directed by Reinout Oerlemans. It is the first Dutch feature film in ...

The Cinematographer's best kept secrets Director/Cinematographer Matthew Rosen explains the tricks of the trade. For more film...

Champagne is a sparkling wine produced from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France following rules that demand, among other things...

In filmmaking and video production, a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a crane or jib. The most obvious uses are to view the ac...

Henk de Velde (sailing) en Frans Mouws (filming) Svalbard formerly known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen) is a Norwegian archipelago in t...

THE CINEMATOGRAPHER [By Charles G. Clarke, ASC] As some confusion exists about the title director of photography, perhaps a brief summary...

Sequences – A major line of action that incorporates many scenes. For example, in the beginning of a movie you could have a “character in...

Alkmaar is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional chees...

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, visual artist, musician, actor, and author. Known for his...

Films Holiday (1930 film), an adaptation of the play, starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor Holiday (1938 film), an adaptation of the play...

North by Northwest is a 1959 American action thriller film, made in VistaVision, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Ev...

Since the late 1970s, cult films have become increasingly popular. Films that once would have been limited to obscure cult followings are...

A montage sequence conveys ideas visually by putting them in a specific order in the film. Narrative montages involve the planning of seq...

A professional video camera (often called a television camera even though the use has spread beyond television) is a high-end device for c...

Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this was not...

>Wedding videography can trace its roots back to before the advent of the modern video camera through 8mm and 16mm films. When film was...

Poetic documentaries, which first appeared in the 1920s, were a sort of reaction against both the content and the rapidly crystallizing ...

High-key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television, or photography that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene....

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist. His father's side's original surname is ...

The standard pattern for early film studios was provided by the studio which Georges Méliès had built in 1897. This had a glass roof and t...

AA Amusement parks evolved from European fairs and pleasure gardens, which were created for people's recreation. World's fairs and...

This Dutch town is also welkown by its traditional cheese market, populair among foreign tourists.

EYE is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It includes a cinematography museum formerly called Filmmuse...

Walk and talk is a storytelling-technique used in filmmaking and television production in which a number of characters have a conversation...

Sponsored content is fundamentally designed to blend in with the look and feel of the other articles on a site, and actual written disclos...

Old school methods Social media, blogging, podcasting and other electronic means of getting the word out are all useful in rounding up ...

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in th...

The Enchanted Drawing is a 1900 silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences r...