A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.Dictionary Definition Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. It is the director's sense of drama, along with the creative visualization of the script, that transforms a screenplay into a well-made motion picture.
However, the director doesn't always have absolute artistic control. The director is usually selected by the producer, whose job it is to make the decisions that are in the best interests of the production company or studio or network. As such, the producers have veto power over everything from the script itself to the final cut of the film, often in anywhere from slight to extreme opposition to the director's vision.
Individual Filmmakers :: Independent
People :: Filmmaking
Filmmakers :: Short Films

Videos by Barbara Hammer - Work includes: Tender Fictions,Nitrate Kisses.
Abraham Ravett - Films include: Garden,Horse/Kappa/House,In Memory.
Alfonso Alvarez - Films include: My Good Eye,Quixote Dreams,Memory Eye,Film For...
Angela Alston - Information and stills. Films include: Lament,The Weeping Woman.
Animate - Experimental animation featuring films, news, contact and background information.
Anna Biller Productions - The films and plays of Anna Biller, including Technicolor genre films and original musicals. Includes artist's statement, guestbook and picture gallery.
Meta Description: [ The films and plays of Anna Biller, including the Technicolor western 'A Visit from the Incubus' and the original stage musical 'The Lady Cat.' Includes an in-depth interview with Anna Biller. ]
Arnold, Martin - A look at the director's experimental black-and-white films
Meta Description: [ Martin Arnold's series of short black-and-white experimental films restore much of the novelty, terror, and humor of early cinema ]
404
Bart Vegter - Dutch filmmaker uses computer-programming for his abstract films. Site includes filmography, stills and articles.
Benning, Sadie - Bright Lights Film Journal article about the Pixelvision director.
Meta Description: [ An iconoclast even as a teen, experimental filmmaker Sadie Benning employed the infamous 'Pixelvision' camera in most of her early work and continues to use it. ]
Berserker Rage Productions - QuickTime Movies, Manifestos, by Simon Tarr. Works include: Burning Contour,Matrix,Growing Up Luke,Afterglow.
Meta Description: [ Experimental film and DVD to download from award winning media artist Simon Tarr. Smart movies for smart people! ]
Bill Brand - Maker of Home Less Home and Masstransiscope, installed in the New York City subway system.
Bitter Films - Animated short films by Don Hertzfeldt. Includes news on screenings, a gallery and a detailed production diary.
Meta Description: [ Animated Short Films by Don Hertzfeldt ]
Blazicek, Martin - Biography of the Czech filmmaker, filmography, and links.
Bo Bergstrom - Homepage of the filmmaker and his projects.
Meta Description: [ This is the website of Bo Bergstrom and Cinesthetic Film. Our 2001 production was a feature titled ]
Bright Lights Film Journal: James Broughton - Ecstasy for all! says the pied piper of queer experimental film.
Meta Description: [ James Broughton: poet, avant-garde film artist, and Dionysian gay sage ]
Bright Lights: Abigail Child - Gary Morris examines her work, including Perils, Mayhem, Surface Noise and B/side.
Meta Description: [ *Since the 1970s, lesbian experimental filmmaker and poet Abigail Child has been engaged in a kind of cultural archaeology. ]
Broken Lens Productions - Group of artists collaborating on films, live video mixing, music and visual arts availible for download.
Brynntrup, Michael - Noted German experimental filmmaker catalogues all of his films, video, and media art.
Meta Description: [ Die radikale Subjektivität, mit der sich Filmer wie Michael Brynntrup aus einem Nichts zum Nicht-Kategorisierbaren entwickeln, zeigt den Zipfel Wirklichkeit, den Feuilletonisten gemeinhin 'Zeitgeist' nennen.
(die tageszeitung, Hamburg, 01.04.85 - Inge Bichler) ]
Controlled by Bees - Video art installations by Craig Caudill. Biography, media, project ideas, image gallery, FAQ, and links.
Cracked Open - Arts collective founded on surrealist principles providing a film gallery and forum.
Meta Description: [ WARNING! *FRAGILE* ]
Craig Baldwin - Maker of: Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America,O No Coronado!Sonic Outlaws.
Dominic Angerame - Executive Director of Canyon Cinema. Maker of A City Symphony, Line of Fire, and other works.
Eisenlohr, Klaus W. - Works include: Local Time + 2 1/2Slow Space - The Interviews
Meta Description: [ Artist, photographer, media artist and filmmaker Klaus W. Eisenlohr presents films and new photographic work from Berlin, Chicago, Hooksiel. Also included are texts about the Flaherty Seminar, his exhibition at Kolonie Wedding and a lecture at Fachhochschule Dortmund. ]
Ernie Gehr - Maker of Morning,Serene Velocity,Shift, and other films.
Farley Films - Experimental short film company based in Canada. Background information, films, and discussion forum.
Filmgrafix Productions - Includes a filmography, news, press releases and contact information.
Harry Smith - Painter, archivist, musicologist, filmmaker, and anthropologist. Films include, Heaven and Earth Magic, Mirror Animations, and Late Superimpositions.
Meta Description: [ Site Design by Citrus Studio Studios ]
Hills, Henry - Has made 22 short experimental films since 1975. His work is represented in various permanent collections. Films include Money,Little Lieutenant,Kino Da!
Meta Description: [ New York experimental filmmaker HENRY HILLS makes intensely rhythmic, densely edited short films which seem different every viewing. ]
Ian Kerkhof - Underground cinema's baddest bad boy
Meta Description: [ Ian Kerkhof: underground cinema's baddest bad boy ]
Jack Feldstein - View the 7 minute film The Madness Monology online.
Jack Smith - Nan Goldin, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wilson, and John Waters are among those who credit Jack Smith's singular vision with inspiring their own art.
Meta Description: [ Jack Smith (1932-1989): New York's pioneering queer film artiste ]
Jeanne Liotta - Homepage of filmmaker, whose work includes The Bordello of Optical Promises,Muktikara,Ceci N'est Pas,Dervish Machine,Soma Sema.
404
Jerry Tartaglia, Experimental Film Page - Description of films and videos, including Ecce Homo,1969,A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M.
Jim Hubbard - Includes biography, filmography, rental information. Maker of: Memento Mori,The Dance,Two Marches and other work.
Joe Maller - Artist, Filmmaker, Author, Designer. Links to works by Joe Maller, Web-Only projects, Experimental Film and Video, Web Design Resources and Writings. Online since 1996.
Joel Schlemowitz - Film descriptions, upcoming screenings, profile by Anna Rohleder. Films include: Eye Music,Abrasions,Weimar,Invitation to a Voyage.
Joost Rekveld - Site dealing with the abstract films and kinetic installations of Joost Rekveld. With backgrounds in the form of links and texts.
Kathy Rose - Kathy Rose creates her own animated and live action film projections intricately integrating herself within them in live performance to create a fascinating poetic alternate universe
Lake Ivan Performance Group (Finkelstein, David) - Overview, videos, links, and a forum on improvisational performance technique.
Meta Description: [ Since 1982, Lake Ivan Performance Group has presented their experimental video and improvised theater works in video and performance venues throughout the country. ]
Lawrence Brose - Maker of De Profundis.
Lawrence Jordan - Experimental filmmaker and animator
Meta Description: [ A look at the work of underground filmmaker Lawrence Jordan ]
404
Len Lye - Pioneered 'direct film', film made without a camera by painting and scratching directly onto celluloid. Films include: Free Radicals,Rainbow Dance,Trade Tattoo.
Meta Description: [ Collection and archive of modernist filmmaker and kinetic sculptor Len Lye. ]
Leslie Alperin - A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, has been making films for the past ten years. Films include: SideTRACKED,Soft Chains,Transplanted Seven Years Later.
Lili White Presents... - Works include: Fine Art,Just For My Friends,The Gift of the Dream: Prelude,The House of the Gentle.
Luther Price - The master of Super-8 cinema takes us into the cave of the unknown, with extraordinary results
Meta Description: [ Luther Price: The master of Super-8 cinema takes us into the cave of the unknown, with extraordinary results ]
Lynne Sachs - Biography/filmography, artist statement. Films include: The House of Science: a museum of false facts,A Biography of Lilith
Magic Club Productions - The works of Peter Anthony Pizzi.
Mark O'Connell - Musician and digital media artist.
Meta Description: [ Globally shown digital video artist Mark O'Connell ]
Mark Street - Statement. Selected Films. Work includes: Blue Movie,Winterwheat,Why Live Here?
Matt Hulse Projects - Information on projects and screenings.
Meta Description: [ ACTIVITY ]
Maya Deren Forum - Maker of Meshes of the Afternoon,At Land,Divine Horsemen, the Living Gods of Haiti. Site includes: Biography Notes, Filmography, Notes on Haitian Footage.
Media World of Takahiko Iimura - Filmography, Videography, Installation/Performance of the maker of 24 Frames Per Second,A Loop Seen As A Line,2 Minutes 46 Seconds 16 Frames and other works.
Patricia Marie Shrigley - Clips of films by the artist.
Peggy Ahwesh - Biography. and filmography. Works include The Scary Movie,The Color of Love,The Deadman (with Keith Sanborn), Philosophy in the Bedroom.
Rebecca Barten - Co-presenter of Total Mobile Home/MicroCinema. Films include: Human Flies,Seventeen Typewriter Films,700 Measured Sprays.
Rebecca M. Alvin - Works include: Women of FaithOur Bodies, Our Minds,Rosie,Voices.
Ritta, Kurt - Operates his own DV production studio as a director, cinematographer and editor, producing experimental short films.
Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe - Homepage for film and video maker whose works include Keep Moving,Queen Of The Mist,Everyone Must Tighten Their Belts, and How Strong The Children.
Meta Description: [ Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe is an award-winning experimental filmmaker, experimental video artist and new media/net artist. Her work is meditative, personal and dogma-resistant, exploring an edge between formal experimentation and personal/social issues. ]
Saccade Pictures - The films of Hans Michaud, including TANK and Nine Through Twelve
Meta Description: [ Hans Michaud has been making films on film for over 18 years. His films have played all over the world and have been praised by some of the foremost experimental filmmakers today. ]
Safary Media Entertainment - Live video entertainment for events, clubs and parties as well as other production services.
Meta Description: [ safary media entertainment - live video scratching, video entertainment for events, clubs and parties, video art for the internet, cutting and copying service, trailers etc. ]
Scott Stark - Author of the Flicker pages. Works include: in.side.out,Archimedes' Screw,Tender Duplicity,The Chromesthetic Response Series.
Selder, Ivo - News, current and past projects, photography, and contact information.
Sheri Wills - Works include Effigy - specimens 4 to 12,Nocturne Nos. 1 2, curator of Synesthesia: The Musical Form in Contemporary Avant-Garde Film
Spul Films Disciplined Productions - Experimental short films/videos by Sydney and Blue Mountains based filmmakers Tina Ulevik and Janelle Speight and sound designer/musician Scott Barnes. Includes stills, history and filmography.
Meta Description: [ sfdp -Spul Films-Disciplined Productions- independent
experimental filmmaking based in Australia ]
Stephen Connolly - Films include: Cathode Ray,West of the Smokestacks,The Mountain Whispers.
Su Friedrich - Friedrich began filmmaking in 1978 and has produced twelve 16mm films, including Gently Down the Stream,The Ties That Bind,Damned If You Don't,Sink or Swim, and Hide and Seek.
Meta Description: [ The official and comprehensive site of Su Friedrich - filmmaker ]
Sysyphus Film Digital Lair - The official site of Dutch underground film team. Provides history, biography, filmography, interviews, pictures and guestbook.
Meta Description: [ This site has been moved to www.xs4all.nl/~sytze/film ]
The Temenos - Restores and prints the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos.
Tina Bastajian - Highlights the projects of the experimental film/video artist.
Todd, Robert - Films include: Fable: I Want the World Clean, and Fisherman: a Birthday Wish. Quick-Time clips, screenings, and ordering information.
Visual Alchemy - Avant-garde and experimental art by Al Razutis. Site includes: 3D Video Art, Holographic Art, Interactive-Applet Visuals, Video Cyber-Theque, Writings, Essays, Manifestos.
Meta Description: [ VISUAL ALCHEMY splash page - 3D multimedia, avant-garde film, 3D video, holographic art, critical writing and art site by Al Razutis ]
Warren Sonbert - A look at the work of avant-garde filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995)
Meta Description: [ The work of avant-garde filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) have recently been shown at retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ]
Wheeler Winston Dixon - Films include: Dana Can Deal,Madagascar, Or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London,Serial Metaphysics,Bits and Pieces.
Zoe Beloff - Zoe's World. Films include: Echo,Life Underwater,A Trip To The Land Of Knowledge.
| Filmmaking Techniques | |
| Next Video | |