What Is Cinema?

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.

• Chuck WorkmanDirector
• Chuck WorkmanWriter

• Chantal AkermanSelf
• Robert AltmanSelf
• David LynchSelf
• Costa-GavrasSelf
• Robert BressonSelf
• Rob EpsteinSelf
• Abbas KiarostamiSelf
• Mike LeighSelf
• Jonas MekasSelf
• Michael MooreSelf
• Yvonne RainerSelf
• Kelly ReichardtSelf