Happy 2026

 

 

Greetings from Benidorm

Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available. The genre is named in reference to guerrilla warfare due to these techniques typically being used to shoot quickly in real locations without obtaining filming permits or providing any other sort of warning.

Independent filmmakers typically resort to guerrilla filmmaking because they do not have the budget or time to obtain permits, rent out locations, or build expensive sets. Larger and more "mainstream" film studios tend to avoid guerrilla filmmaking tactics because of the risk of being sued, fined or having their reputation damaged due to negative publicity.

Lake Annecy

 

 

 Those seeking to learn the technical craft of filmmaking in the early days of cinema were largely self-taught engineers or still photographers who experimented with new film technology. With the rise of commercial filmmaking in the 1920s, most notably the Hollywood studio system, those seeking to learn the technical skills of filmmaking most often started at the bottom of a hierarchical system and apprenticed under a more experienced person to learn the trade.

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood rebel

 

 

A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, and frequency modulation synthesis. These sounds may be altered by components such as filters, which cut or boost frequencies; envelopes, which control articulation, or how notes begin and end; and low-frequency oscillators, which modulate parameters such as pitch, volume, or filter characteristics affecting timbre. Synthesizers are typically played with keyboards or controlled by sequencers, software or other instruments, and can be synchronized to other equipment via MIDI.

 

Fassbinder filmer

 

 

 Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, was a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. 

  Fassbinder and I knew each other from the beginning of our careers. I never liked him. No doubt there’s a good measure of competitiveness on my part behind this dislike. That which one is most like is what one ends up being most critical of. We’re both gay, independent filmmakers who worked a great deal with amateurs.

Visual Poems

 

 

 Visual poetry is a style of poetry that incorporates graphic and visual design elements to convey its meaning. This style combines visual art and written expression to create new ways of presenting and interpreting poetry. Visual poetry focuses on playing with form, which means it often takes on various art styles. These styles can range from altering the structure of the words on the page to adding other kinds of media to change the poem itself. Some forms of visual poetry may retain their narrative structure, but this is not a requirement of visual poetry. Some visual poets create more abstract works that steer away from linguistic meaning and instead focus heavily on the composition of words and letters to create a visually pleasing piece.

Mans' world

 

 

 Match cut A type of cut from one shot to another where the composition of each shot is matched to the other by the action or subject matter depicted; e.g. in a scene depicting a duel, a long shot showing both of the duellists might cut to a close-up shot of one of the duellists in the midst of the action. Match cuts are precisely timed and coordinated so as to produce a seamless transition that is consistent with the logic of the action.

Rob Reiner RIP

 

Swedish Rollercoaster

 

 

 Cameras have evolved, filmmakers have developed a vast array of camera movements and camera angles to enhance storytelling. Mastering these camera techniques is essential for cinematographers and directors, helping them guide the audience’s perspective and emotions effectively. Camera movement transforms static scenes into dynamic storytelling. This video breaks down key techniques—like push-ins, tracking shots, and whip pans—showing how they shape perspective and build tension. Watch to see how intentional movement elevates every shot:

Birth of Eindhoven

 

 

Filmclub Lumière Eindhoven is no longer active as an independent club, but its collection of films, often with Eindhoven-related themes, has been acquired and managed by Eindhoven in Beeld, a platform where you can watch these historical films online. Although Lumière itself has ceased operations, you can still find their heritage (and other) through Eindhoven-related themes, and the Eindhoven arthouse cinema Natlab (formerly Plaza/De Effenaar) is an important venue for film in the city.

Greenhouse effect

 

 

 Paul de Nooijer (Eindhoven, June 15, 1943 – Baarsdorp, December 12, 2025) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. De Nooijer worked in the fields of surrealism, magical realism, and fantasy art. His eclectic approach, absurdist humor, and mockery of conventional perception made him a forerunner and inspiration for Dutch staged photography of the 1980s.  He is one of the Dutch pioneers of staged photography, in which the photographer stages everything in advance rather than spontaneously capturing a moment. De Nooijer was known for his humorous and surrealist style. He experimented early on with animations and video clips. 

Nature loop

 

Studio Ghibli (Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) is a Japanese film studio responsible for a large number of anime films. The company is based in Koganei, Tokyo, and was founded in 1985. Name The name Ghibli is derived from the nickname the Italians gave to the aircraft they used for reconnaissance flights over the Sahara during World War II. This name, in turn, is derived from the Libyan wind, which blows from south to north across the desert, similar to the sirocco. The studio chose this name because they wanted to bring a breath of fresh air to the anime industry.

Huub Stapel director too

 

 

 Dubbing (also known as re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and the video production process where supplementary recordings (known as doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production audio to create the final product. Often this process is performed on films by replacing the original language to offer voiced-over translations. After sound editors edit and prepare all the necessary tracks—dialogue, automated dialogue replacement (ADR), effects, foley, and music—the dubbing mixers proceed to balance all of the elements and record the finished soundtrack

Tram away

 

 

 Films are considered by many to be an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences. The visual elements of cinema need no translation, giving the motion picture a universal power of communication. Any film can become a worldwide attraction, especially with the addition of dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue. Films are also artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them.

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Sports

 

 

 Several sub-categories of sports films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in live action, are somewhat fluid. The most common sports subgenres depicted in movies are sports drama and sports comedy. Both categories typically employ playground settings, match, game creatures and other elements commonly associated with biological stories. Sports films tend to feature a more richly developed sport world, and may also be more player-oriented or thematically complex. 

Holland days

 

 

 The cartoon originated in the Middle Ages, and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window. In the 19th century, beginning in Punch magazine in 1843, cartoon came to refer – ironically at first – to humorous artworks in magazines and newspapers. Then it also was used for political cartoons and comic strips. When the medium developed, in the early 20th century, it began to refer to animated films that resembled print cartoons.

 

Science of optics

 

 

By Sarah Chekfa Publication date 2023 Topics public domain day film contest 2023 

Item Size 159.3M Collage film created in celebration of Public Domain Day 1927-2023.

Amsterdamned II

 

 

 Amsterdamned II is better than part one on many fronts. It is more exciting (Maas was clearly inspired by genre classics like Jaws and even Alien), is told tighter and with more speed and is considerably less rude. Occasionally a 'spout dick' still flies by, but just like director Maas, inspector Eric Visser has become older and wiser. And despite the fact that actor Huub Stapel is over seventy, the stunts in part two are still impressive. For example – just like almost forty years ago, in the insane chase through the Amsterdam canals of part one – he is behind the wheel himself. Not from a speedboat this time, but from a jet ski. Times change.

Other moviestars

 

Van der Linden labels a central factor in the decline of the MCU “storytelling entropy.” Classic films, you may have noticed, concentrate practically all the energy in every facet of their production toward the expression of specific themes, stories, and characters; at their best, their every line, gesture, cut, and invention represents the tip of an artistic iceberg. Take, to use a popular example, the lightsaber introduced in Star Wars, which Van der Linden calls “not just a weapon, but a metaphor” that “symbolically communicates a lot about the philosophy of its wielder, and about the larger world that it exists in,” condensing “a multitude of meanings and ideas into a simple, singular object.”

Spread the bread/toost?

 

 

The term social in regard to media suggests platforms enable communal activity. Social media helps people connect and build networks. Users access social media through web-based or mobile applications. These interactive platforms allow individuals, communities, businesses, and organizations to share, co-create, discuss, participate in, and modify user-generated or self-curated content. Social media is used to share memories, form friendships, and learn. They may be used to promote people, companies, products, and ideas. Social media can be used to consume, publish, or share news.

Whoe

 

 

Cinéma vérité It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or highlight subjects hidden behind reality. It is sometimes called observational cinema, if understood as pure direct cinema: mainly without a narrator's voice-over. There are subtle, yet important, differences between terms expressing similar concepts. Direct cinema is largely concerned with the recording of events in which the subject and audience become unaware of the camera's presence Many therefore see a paradox in drawing attention away from the presence of the camera and simultaneously interfering in the reality it registers when attempting to discover a cinematic truth.

Design academy

 

 

 Design Academy Eindhoven Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) is one of the world’s leading design schools, recognised internationally for its forward-thinking and renowned professors and alumni. Design Academy Eindhoven is a University of the Arts that specializes in Design and is part of the Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences. For over 70 years it has trained aspiring designers to make their mark on the future by thinking freely and openly about what design can achieve, consistently exploring design as an instrument of material, social, environmental and critical innovation.

Gen Z

 

 

 Gen Z, or Generation Z, is the group of people born between about 1997 and 2012, and they are also called 'digital natives' because they grew up with technology such as smartphones and the internet. This generation is characterized by their digital skills, attention to social issues such as sustainability and diversity, and a pragmatic attitude. They are flexible, visually oriented and attach great importance to inclusivity and authenticity.

Composition in Movies

 

 

 The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context. In graphic design for press and desktop publishing, composition is commonly referred to as page layout.

 

Welcome in Wales

 

 

 In the beginning, main title design consisted of the movie studio's name and/or logo and the presentation of the main characters along with the actor's names, generally using that same artwork presented on title cards. Most independent or major studio had their own title art logo used as the background for their screen credits and they used it almost exclusively on every movie that they produced.

Naturaly Amsterdam

 

 

 A film adaptation transfers the details or story of an existing source text, such as a novel, into a feature film. This transfer can involve adapting most details of the source text closely, including characters or plot points, or the original source can serve as loose inspiration, with the implementation of only a few details. While the most common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis, other works adapted into films include non-fiction (including journalism), autobiographical works, comic books, scriptures, plays, historical sources and even other films. Adaptation from such diverse resources has been a ubiquitous practice of filmmaking since the earliest days of cinema in nineteenth-century Europe.

Sri Lanka nature/culture

 

 

 An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies). Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style, and how the filmmakers' artistic vision is realized. Sometimes, independent films are made with considerably lower budgets than major studio films

Cruyff: the goals

 

 

 A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport or a sports-related topic is prominently featured or is a focus of the plot. Despite this, sport is ultimately rarely the central concern of such films and sport performs primarily an allegorical role.[1] Furthermore, sports fans are not necessarily the target demographic in such movies, but sports fans tend to maintain a high following and esteem for such movies.

Internet Archive

 

 

 The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".

Bergman favourites

 

 

 Ernst Ingmar Bergman[a] (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both European film industry and Swedish cinema. His films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul.

Glow 2025

 

 

 Video production for distance education Video production for distance education is the process of capturing, editing, and presenting educational material specifically for use in on-line education. The process involves scripting, content organization, video capture, and editing to produce educational materials delivered online.

Fried air

 

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary.

History of the car

 

 

 The first company to focus exclusively on the production of cars was the French Panhard et Levassor in 1889. They were quickly followed by Peugeot 2 years later. In the United States, Duryea was the first in 1892. The Benz Velo and the Duryea Motor Wagon are seen as the first standardized cars. This gave birth to the car industry. In a few years, hundreds of producers were founded to build steam cars, electric cars and fuel cars. Around the turn of the century, there were more than a thousand factories in the Alsace region alone, between Germany and France, engaged in the production of cars.

 

Steam Again

 

 

 In the film industry, a "first-look deal" is an agreement where a writer and an independent production company—or a production company and a film studio—arrange for the potential buyer (usually a producer or studio) to pay a development fee in exchange for the exclusive right to preview a script or project in development before it’s shown to others. This gives the buyer the first opportunity to purchase, distribute, or move forward with pre-agreed terms

Metropolis coloured

 

 

 Undeniably one of the great operatic epics yet made, "Metropolis" is Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction film, revered for its special effects and inventive montages. Metropolis has influenced just about every major movie that has come after it. Among those who have quoted it: Tim Burton, Bong Joon-Ho, Stanley Kubrick, and Guillermo del Toro. Metropolis is about a futuristic city that's divided by a glitzy, rich upper-class world and a brutal lower-class society of machine-workers. It's a parable of social and economic divides. Can these divides be resolved by politics, religious faith, science, or something else? The movie is going to ask and try to answer that question!

Open day Eye Filmmuseum

 

 

 Eye is acclaimed for its technologically advanced restorations of classic films, as well as its restorations of experimental and silent films. Thanks to Eye’s efforts, films such as Beyond the Rocks (1922, with Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson), J'accuse! (Abel Gance, 1919), and Wan Pipel (Pim de la Parra, 1976) have been given a second lease on life in the form of beautifully restored copies. Eye has won several international awards for its restoration work, including the Jean Mitry Award, the Film Preservation Honors, and the Prix Henri Langlois.

Live life love

 

 

 A nostalgic journey through childhood, innocence, and hope formed from the memories of a dreamer who comes to the realization that they aren't the dreamer at all; they are just being dreamed.

Fish and more

 

 

 A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film's production and release cycle. To show the film to best advantage, special screenings may take place in plush, low seat-count theaters with very high quality (sometimes especially certified) projection and sound equipment, and can be accompanied by food and drink and spoken remarks by producers, writers, or actors. Special screenings typically occur outside normal theatrical showing hours. The different types of screenings are presented here in their order within a film's development.

Gerrit van Dijk animator

 

 

 Gerrit van Dijk studied as a fifteen-year-old boy at the academy in Tilburg. He was not very satisfied about the school. "You only learn technique. The creativity you learn is no creativity at all. You know exactly what colour socks you should wear and what your hair should look like, but not how to put something on paper." After finishing his study, he initially became a teacher. His painting career ended abruptly when he saw Norman McLaren's films and bought a double-eight camera. He made his first film It's Good in Heaven, seeing his shift to film as a logical continuation of his work as a painter, and considered his films moving paintings. Over time, Dijk moved away from classic filmmaking, instead creating collages combining photographs and image-by-image technique. He also experimented with various techniques, including cels, cut-outs, rotoscope, pixilation, and live action combined with animation. I move, so I am

 

Letters of Van Gogh

 

 

 Vincent van Gogh was an avid letter writer. He had a great need to share his ideas and feelings. After he and his siblings had left home, they wrote to each other and their parents regularly. Many of Vincent's letters were preserved, and sometimes the answers to them. The correspondence consists of a total of 903 letters, of which 820 from Van Gogh and 83 to him. Most of the letters are addressed to his brother Theo, his best friend and confidant. Theo kept Vincent's letters carefully. Vincent was less precise – many letters were thrown away or burned by him. Van Gogh wrote many more letters, in total he probably wrote more than 2,000. We can calculate that based on comments in the letters such as 'I wrote to today...', and 'I just received a letter from...'.

Nigerians

 

 

 Filmmaking in Colonial Nigeria generally refers to an era in Nigerian cinema, usually spanning the 1900s through to the 1950s, when film production and exhibition or distribution were controlled by the British colonial Government. The history of cinema in Nigeria dates back to as early as the history of film itself; notably in the late 19th century, with the use of peephole viewing of motion picture devices. These were soon replaced in the early 20th century with improved motion picture exhibition devices, with the first set of films screened at the Glover Memorial Hall in Lagos from 12 to 22 August 1903.

 

Discovery

 

 

 Eye filmmuseum The animation gallery focuses on the craftsmanship of five iconic Dutch animators from 1950 to 2010: Joop Geesink, Monique Renault, Gerrit van Dijk, Maarten Visser and José Vonk. Animated films and objects from the collection can be admired: animation cells, puppets, original drawings and film strips.

Making off Publieke Werken

 

 

 

Public Works (Dutch: Publieke werken), also distributed under the title A Noble Intention, is a 2015 Dutch historical drama directed by Joram Lürsen based on a script written by Frank Ketelaar based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Rosenboom. It was based on the book of the same name by Thomas Rosenboom about the troubled construction of the Victoria Hotel in Amsterdam. It was listed as one of eleven films that could be selected as the Dutch submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won the Pearl Award at the Film by the Sea festival in the Netherlands in 2016.

Catharina palace St Petersburg

 

The display of the Catherine Palace (known until 1910 as the Great Palace of Tsarskoe Selo) covers the 300-year history of this outstanding edifice and presents the work of architects involved in its construction and decoration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also with the achievements of the restorers who returned the palace to life after the Second World War. Of the 58 halls destroyed during the war years, 32 have been recreated and more are expecting their revival soon.

People of Amsterdam

 

 

 Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings. Contemporary topics include photography, video, film, design, and computer art. Art education may focus on students creating art, on learning to criticize or appreciate art, or some combination of the two.

Dubrovnik

 

 

 Digital recording and reproduction converts the analog sound signal picked up by the microphone to a digital form by the process of sampling. This lets the audio data be stored and transmitted by a wider variety of media. Digital recording stores audio as a series of binary numbers (zeros and ones) representing samples of the amplitude of the audio signal at equal time intervals, at a sample rate high enough to convey all sounds capable of being heard. A digital audio signal must be reconverted to analog form during playback before it is amplified and connected to a loudspeaker to produce sound

Jaques Tati

 

 

 Tati as director 

In early 1946, Jacques Tati and Fred Orain founded the production company Cady-Films, which would produce Tati's first three films. With the exception of his first and last films, Tati played the gauche and socially inept lead character, Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. Several themes recur in Tati's work, most notably in Mon Oncle, Playtime, and Trafic. They include Western society's obsession with material goods, particularly American-style consumerism, the pressure-cooker environment of modern society, the superficiality of relationships among France's various social classes, and the cold and often impractical nature of space-age technology and design.

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MidgetGolf

 

 

 A vlog, also known as a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. In recent years,[when?] "vlogging" has spawned a large community on social media, becoming one of the most popular forms of digital entertainment. Vlogs combine visual and auditory elements, allowing creators to convey context that may be less apparent in written formats. Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for distribution of the video over the Internet, using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers The vlog category is popular on the video-sharing platform YouTube.

Colorfilm collage

 

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Technicolor is a family of color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades.

Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and-white films running through a special camera (Three-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s, when the three-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single-strip "monopack" color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black-and-white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5).