Directors
Great writer-directors, new and old, fashion new ways to look at complex worlds, characters, destinies, struggles. A global gallery of cinematic visionaries.
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19 itemsAnand Patwardhan
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Discover the complete filmography of Anand Patwardhan, for almost 50 years India’s most important – and to some, controversial – documentary filmmaker.
From his first film Waves of Revolution made in 1974 through his most recent film Reason completed in 2018, Patwardhan has recorded the modern h...
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2 itemsKevin Rafferty
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Kevin Rafferty (1947-2020) studied architecture at Harvard University and film at the California Institute of the Arts. A cinematographer, director and producer, he directed only six films, but influenced a generation of filmmakers, including Michael Moore.
OVID is proud to present two of his fi...
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6 itemsAlain Resnais
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Alain Resnais (1922-2014) has been recognized as one of the leading post-World War II artists of French cinema. He rose to prominence in the mid-1950s with the release of his powerful documentary, NIGHT AND FOG (1955), which provided an unprecedented look at the Nazi concentration camps and drew ...
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2 itemsMichael Rubbo
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Michael Rubbo was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938. He studied anthropology at Sydney University, which led to an interest in film. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship which led to him doing a Masters degree in Communications at Stanford University, California. His thesis film land...
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2 itemsMario Ruspoli
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"As his long friendship and association with Chris Marker might suggest, Mario Ruspoli is something of a trickster. This collection spans the Rome-born, Paris-dwelling filmmaker’s short documentaries from 1958 to 1972, which might suggest, with their rough aesthetics and salt-of-the-earth subject...
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2 itemsPierre Schoendoerffer
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Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-2012) was a French director and writer, known for Le Crabe-Tambour (1977), The 317th Platoon (1965) and The Anderson Platoon (1967). His colorful life shaped the films he went on to direct—he served as a soldier in Southeast Asia, was taken prisoner during the battle o...
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2 itemsDaniel Schmid
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Daniel Schmid was born to a family of hotel proprietors on 26th December 26, 1941 in the small Grisons town of Flims. In the sixties he studied at the Free University Berlin and attended the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. He worked together with Peter Lilienthal, Rainer Werner Fass...
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9 itemsMelissa Young & Mark Dworkin
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Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin founded the Moving Images Video Project 20 years ago to produce and distribute documentaries about war and peace, human rights, global justice, and protection for the environment. Seeking to increase understanding in the United States of political and social issues ...