Visions of Light (1992)

Directed by

Todd McCarthy

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the history of cinematography from the early days of cinema. Filmmakers and cinematographers talk about their craft and how the camera tells a story visually.

informativereflectiveeducationalreverentretrospectivecontemplativeappreciativeneatly-paced

What happens

Visions of Light (also known as Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography) is a 1992 documentary film directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels. The film covers the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema at the turn of the 20th century. It features numerous filmmakers and cinematographers as interview subjects, presenting their views and discussing the importance of cinematography in the craft of filmmaking. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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