Episode List
Season 1
8 Mar. 2023
Openings, Tone
Productions from around the world ranging from 1943 to 2013 reveal varied ways to open a film to set the tone.
8 Mar. 2023
Believability, Character, Meet Cute
Directors discuss how to create believability in characters and interactions while telling simple human stories.
8 Mar. 2023
Conversation, Framing, Tracking
Directors detail filming a conversation; Angela Schanelec focuses on body language in Places in Cities; Cecile Tang uses the zoom as a guide through the emotional shifts in The Arch.
8 Mar. 2023
Staging, Journey, Discovery
Scene staging originates from cinema's roots in theatre; Kinuyo Tanaka uses staging to shape a scene's invisible geometry and accentuate tension between characters in The Moon Has Risen.
8 Mar. 2023
POV, Close Up, Dream
Directors including Jocelyn Moorhouse, Ida Lupino, Sofia Coppola, Kelly Reichart, Jennifer Kent, and others demonstrate the art of point of view, perspective, and editing.
8 Mar. 2023
Episode #1.6
India's great film star Sharmila Tagore talks about dreams in movies, with examples ranging from Wayne's World through experimental film to Sally Potter. Jane Fonda continues to talk about bodies.
8 Mar. 2023
Bodies, Sex
Directors including Agnes Varda, Andrea Arnold, Marva Nabili, Pirjo Honkasalo, Marta Meszaros, and Wanda Jakubows discuss bodies and sex in cinema.
8 Mar. 2023
Home, Religion, Work
Sharmila Tagore narrates the story of home, religion, and work in movies by Edith Carlmar, Lynne Ramsay, Mai Zetterling, Liu Jiay-in, Antonia Bird, and others.
8 Mar. 2023
Politics, Gear Change, Comedy
From silent movies to cinema of the twenty-first century, some films gain energy from politics such as The Enchanted Desna, Divorce Iranian Style, Strange Days.
8 Mar. 2023
Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Horror & Hell
Sharmila Tagore reveals some of the secrets of melodrama from Kira Muratova's Chekhov's Motifs to Binka Zhelyazkova's We Were Young.
8 Mar. 2023
Tension, Stasis, Leave Out
Directors explore gripping scenes in thrillers and other types, including Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel, Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life, and Mimi Leder's Peacemaker.
8 Mar. 2023
Reveal, Memory, Time
Cinema as a kind of time machine as shown in the films by Lynne Ramsay, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sarah Polley, and Alice Rohrwacher.
8 Mar. 2023
Life Inside, the Meaning of Life, Love
Directors talk about how films in France, Ukraine, Britain, America, New Zealand, and Algeria reflect the meaning of life and love.
8 Mar. 2023
Death, Endings, Song and Dance
Various female filmmakers such as Kinuyo Tanaka, Caroline Leaf, Ana Mariscal, Paula Van der Oest, and others talk about how they deal with the universal subject of death.
Season 1
