I am Cuba / Soy Cuba
I am Cuba / Soy Cuba is an amazing Soviet/Cuban propaganda film from 1964 with beautiful ultrawide, long take black and white cinematography.
Creative Filmmaking Ideas
by Tom Barrance
One of the best ways to learn filmmaking is to get inspired by other filmmakers, and to try out new filmmaking approaches. This section has ideas, short movies, and information about film history and movements.
>Learn about essential filmmaking techniques
Poem films and film poems
Poems can make great inspirations for films. Here are some examples, using music and images to broaden out the meaning of a poem; linking performance, dance, sound and editing; and using punchy, in-your-face typography.
Alternative storytelling
Yan Giroux’s award-winning short uses unconventional filmmaking to show the confrontation between a young park warden and a gang of youths.
How Great Filmmakers Have Used Sound in Movies
Sound is a crucial part of film and you need to pay as much attention to it as you do to the images. Here’s how some great filmmakers have used sound in their films.
Soviet montage: how the Russian Revolution changed film
In the years between the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin, Soviet filmmakers invented a new language of film: one that still inspires filmmakers today.
Fiction film
Josh Soskin’s ‘Milk Run’ shows how a skilled filmmaker can use pictures, sound and editing to tell a complex story clearly in a couple of minutes.
