Filmmakers on Film

Global Perspectives

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Edited by André Rui Graça, Manuela Penafria and Eduardo Tulio Baggio

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, authorship, creation, technique

Publishing date

2026 (March 19, 2026)

Publisher

BFI Publishing

1st publishing

2023

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 276 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-83902-486-3

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Book Presentation:
This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers’ thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory. It brings together primary sources by filmmakers themselves, drawing on their films, interviews, books, texts, and manifestos. Divided into three parts, the book covers the main aspects of this approach. Part one discusses the concepts of ‘author’ and ‘filmmaker’. Part two evaluates the creative processes of a broad range of filmmakers, including Víctor Gaviria (Colombia), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil), Jean-Luc Godard and Agnès Varda (France), Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) Pa. Ranjith (India), Andy Warhol (USA), Maya Deren (Ukraine-USA) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey). The final part examines filmmakers’ various techniques, particularly the use of multi-images, after-(dialectical)-images, and the use of sound as a sensorial and narrative tool. This curated selection of writings, with contributors from a range of countries including the USA, UK, India, China, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium and New Zealand, reflects the global perspective of this new approach. The volume also discusses the ways in which filmmakers influence each other, the spectator as seen by filmmakers, and ways to critically address a filmography that takes into account filmmakers other than the director.

About the authors:
André Rui Graça is Researcher at Lusófona University (CICANT) and Guest Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He is author of Portuguese Cinema (1960-2010): Consumption, Circulation and Commerce (2021). He is co-editor of a special issue of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication (2022) and Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (2020). He has published widely on Portuguese Cinema, cultural policies, film theory, and the relationship between creative industries and economics.Eduardo Baggio is Associate Professor at Unespar - Paraná State University, Brazil. He is a member of the board of the Brazilian Society of Film and Audiovisual Studies and has published on Brazilian cinema, creative processes in cinema and documentary.Manuela Penafria is Associate Professor at University of Beira Interior, Portugal. She publishes on film theory, portuguese cinema and documentary, has been a jury member of entities such as FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology and is now collaborating in the making of pedagogical manuals for the Portuguese National Cinema Plan.

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