Der Vorführ-Effekt

An ode to projection in cinema, from the work of the projectionist to the machines that light up the theaters.

How do you entertain yourself while entertaining others? A short documentary about a nighttime projectionist passing the time.

When the UK's oldest working cinema opened in 1909, it took five years to train a projectionist - a century later, it takes less than an hour. The...

Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this...

This is the story of my grandfather, Tiago Florit, who for 50 years was a film operator at the Teatre Principal de Maó, in Menorca. It is a...

A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film.

Hollywood has made up their minds, forcing theaters to convert to digital or go dark. As theaters around the world change to newer digital...

After not being recognized by an actress with whom he worked twenty years ago, a projectionist films himself and introduces himself into a film to...

Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange...

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died...

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single...

A mysterious projectionist in abandoned movie house plays host to a young intruder and offers him the chance to watch four spine-tingling tales of...