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Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. (Every Frame a Painting)

Nerdwriter looks at how Panos Cosmatos uses the effects of film grain in Mandy.

Nerdwriter looks at how sound design can structure a movie scene.

"This Guy Edits" Talking about how you can focus your editing skills on the single most important thing.

What can we learn from Pablo Picasso's style and philosophy and apply to filmmaking and editing? - "This Guy Edits" Reveals

This 7-minute clip discusses the abolition of armed central authority and what kind of world that would make possible -- a world of peaceful voluntary communities thriving in harmony with the habitat. Music: Pye Corner Audio "Toward Light" Mark ...

Let's study Orson Welles’ 1973 masterpiece F for Fake. There are a million lessons to take away from it, but today, let’s see what it has to teach us about structure.

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Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen. Join me today in studying the master, possibly the greatest composer of ...

Today we get into the process of music and sound design!

The title character played by Michael Cera in the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is a bewildered young man in a constant state of flux. Fittingly, director Edgar Wright pays extra attention to the transitions between the scenes in this mov ...

Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: The US' broken political system. But first this TED talk.

Nerdwriter essay about just that.

Using a shallow depth of field is a powerful tool... but it's important to be aware of the dangers and think about your focus.

Just a few simple steps to getting a great look with a simple black Background.

Why record NOTHING? Well, because you may REALLY need it! I cover the basics of Room Tone, why you need it, how you do it, and how to not do it. THIS MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE: Facebook: facebook.com/TheBasicFilmmaker

How affordably could we light an interview that is good enough to go on primetime? It can be easy to get lost in all of the toys and tools and forget the basics. When you really understand how your choices add to story, you can often do so so much wi ...

Hippy Hai's post of a TED talk

Polyglot Telephone / dir. Valeria Lopez / investigates the way meaning is transformed through language translation. Language is a logos that imposes itself on us but at the same time, can only live through us and is modified and transformed by us. ...

Published on Feb 7, 2015 A documentary about a small community of zero-budget filmmakers who make shorts to rival productions from film school crews. This film was screened at NFFTY 2015 in Seattle, Washington.

"Well now you can find the others, you don't have to stick a flower in your hair and go to San Francisco. You just go to the Web. Find the others. We all need to create affinity groups which are subsets of the much larger community that we're part of ...

Terence McKenna - You Must Have A Plan

Noam Chomsky on Marxism, Listen Carefully And Take His Word for it. Born in Prussia on May 5, 1818, Karl Marx began exploring sociopolitical theories at university among the Young Hegelians. He became a journalist, and his writings would get him e ...

Footage of a Lecture/Performance by Leary from the 1980's. Leary discusses conspiracies, prisons, the space shuttle, and death.